Bill Text: IL HR0966 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Shows continued support for Grow Your Own Illinois' commitment to providing quality teachers from high-need communities who want to remain in their communities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-09 - Resolution Adopted [HR0966 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HR0966-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The initiative that was to become Grow Your Own | ||||||
3 | was started by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a | ||||||
4 | community organizing group working in a low-income Latino | ||||||
5 | neighborhood; and
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6 | WHEREAS, After launching a Parent Mentor program in the | ||||||
7 | 1990s, the Logan Square Neighborhood Association observed that | ||||||
8 | many of the participating parents wanted to become teachers but | ||||||
9 | could not afford college; the Association recognized this as an | ||||||
10 | opportunity to further develop community-parent-school | ||||||
11 | relations; and
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12 | WHEREAS, The Logan Square Neighborhood Association | ||||||
13 | partnered with a faculty member from Chicago State University | ||||||
14 | and was awarded a federal Teacher Quality Enhancement grant to | ||||||
15 | launch Nueva Generacion, the precursor to Grow Your Own; the | ||||||
16 | goal of the new program was to prepare teachers who knew the | ||||||
17 | language and culture of the students in Logan Square's | ||||||
18 | classrooms; and
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19 | WHEREAS, At the same time, Action Now, formerly Illinois | ||||||
20 | ACORN, began to realize that their problem was not only | ||||||
21 | recruiting teachers to the North Lawndale schools but also | ||||||
22 | retaining good teachers; Action Now decided to tackle the goal |
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1 | of improving teacher quality and retention by creating a new | ||||||
2 | coalition, the Chicago Learning Campaign; and
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3 | WHEREAS, The Logan Square Neighborhood Association was the | ||||||
4 | first of many community organizations to join the campaign to | ||||||
5 | "grow" teachers from local residents, including | ||||||
6 | paraprofessionals, community leaders, and parents, thus | ||||||
7 | creating the solution to the high rates of teacher turnover in | ||||||
8 | their community; and
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9 | WHEREAS, The campaign was later joined by the TARGET Area | ||||||
10 | Development Corporation in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, | ||||||
11 | Kenwood Oakland Community Organization from the mid-South | ||||||
12 | Side, and Southwest Organizing Project in the Gage Park/Chicago | ||||||
13 | Lawn neighborhood; and
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14 | WHEREAS, In 2004, the organizers successfully advocated | ||||||
15 | for a Grow Your Own Teacher Education Act; in 2005, the program | ||||||
16 | received State funding and became Grow Your Own Illinois, a | ||||||
17 | non-profit organization; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Grow Your Own Illinois partnered with the Illinois | ||||||
19 | State Board of Education to develop the initiative statewide; | ||||||
20 | the organization was also responsible for brokering additional | ||||||
21 | partnerships among community organizations, local school | ||||||
22 | districts, and 4-year degree-granting universities; and
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1 | WHEREAS, In 2010, Grow Your Own Illinois was transferred to | ||||||
2 | the Illinois Board of Higher Education, where the organization | ||||||
3 | has been diligently working with the agency to improve the | ||||||
4 | program; therefore, be it
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5 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
6 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
7 | we show our continued support for Grow Your Own Illinois' | ||||||
8 | commitment to providing quality teachers from high-need | ||||||
9 | communities who want to remain in their community; and be it | ||||||
10 | further
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11 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
12 | presented to Grow Your Own Illinois as a symbol of our esteem | ||||||
13 | and respect.
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