Public Hearing

42 W Madison St Chicago, IL 60602 (Directions)

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON WAIVER APPLICATION Prior to the regular Chicago Board of Education meeting, a Public Hearing will be held at 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 42 W. Madison Street for a waiver application to allow Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students in kindergarten through 8th grade to engage in a course of physical education for a minimum of 2 days per 5-day week instead of 3 days per 5-day week. CPS seeks to apply for a waiver of Section 27-6 of the Illinois School Code, which requires that students engage in physical education for a minimum of 3 days per 5-day week (except for block scheduling and appropriate excuses). CPS policy requires students in kindergarten through 8th grade engage in a course of physical education for a minimum of 3 days per 5-day week for a minimum of 120 minutes per week. CPS is proposing that students in kindergarten through 8th grade engage in 120 minutes of physical education over 2 days per 5-day week. For this Public Hearing, advance registration to speak will be available beginning Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 9:00 am and will close on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 9:00 am, Anyone interested in speaking can sign up. After the 24-hour registration period, a lottery will randomly select a set number of speakers from those who registered. For example, if 100 people register, the lottery might select 10 of them to speak. This process gives everyone a fair chance to address the Board. Advance registration during this period is available by the following methods: Online: www.cpsboe.org (recommended) Phone: (773) 553-1600 The Public Participation segment of the Public Hearing will conclude after the last person who has registered to speak has spoken, or at 9:30 a.m. whichever occurs first. Staff members are encouraged to participate. To ensure equity of access to address the Board, an individual may not speak at back-to-back meetings and more than one meeting per month. If you register for back-to-back meetings and more than one meeting per month, you will not be included for that meeting lottery. In the event an individual registers to speak at a consecutive meeting, the individual will not be called to address the Board. However, if less than the allotted number of speakers register for a meeting, the limitation on speaking at consecutive meetings and/or more than once within a month will not apply, and those previously ineligible to speak will be reinstated in the lottery and may be eligible to speak. Members of the public may submit written comments related to this waiver application via the Written Comments Form on the Board’s website at www.cpsboe.org or mailed to 42 West Madison, Garden Level. Written comments received between the day the public agenda is posted through 5 p.m. the day after the Board of Education meeting will be submitted to the Board and posted within five (5) business days on our website at www.cpsboe.org.

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