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A Fond Farewell
Effective February 1, 2007, the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group & its Campaign for Better Transit have ceased operations, due to lack of funding. For details, please read our Letter to NCBG’s Friends & Allies. Then, connect with Key Community Leaders who will continue the movement for government accountability and reforms!
You may send inquiries to: NCBGCBT@gmail.com
Join us for an NCBG reunion & celebration:
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 5-7 pm
Garfield Park Conservatory Community RM, 300 N. Central Park Avenue
Rebuilding Our Schools
NO Child Left Behind? New study shows that millions of America's public school students and their teachers - are being left behind - when it comes to access to high-quality school facilities.
NEW! Updates on the Campaign to Reform Chicago Public Schools' School Closings Policy! Fact Sheet on the Schools that CPS has closed, and Briefing Paper on HB0200 - School Closings Reform Legislation pending in Springfield
NEW! Read NCBG's analysis of Mayor Daley's "Modern Schools Across Chicago" program. Should our neighborhood public schools have to depend on TIF funding to build safe and educationally adequate facilities?
Read the report just released by NCBG and our national partners in "Building Educational Success Together", "Growth & Disparity - A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction" ( - 2MB).
Organizing For Accountable Development
New! Updated PowerPoint on Tax Increment Financing
By popular request, NCBG’s ‘Digesting the Aldermanic Menu’ returns!
“To TIF or Not To TIF?” – Cook County Starts To Ask Questions!
NCBG’s ongoing efforts to bring about greater accountability and transparency in the City’s top economic development program, Tax Increment Financing, recently won additional support from Cook County Commissioner Michael Quigley. See http://www.commissionerquigley.com/tif.shtm for more.
Rebuilding Our Schools with TIF Dollars?
The Illinois General Assembly has yet to pass a state capital budget to fund improvements to school facilities across the state. Contact the leaders of the House and Senate and tell them to fund the state school construction program!
President of the Senate Senator Emil Jones Jr
Senate Minority Leader Senator Frank Watson
Speaker of the House Representative Mike Madigan
House of Representatives Republican Leader Representative Tom Cross
The Real Alternative To Arbitrary & Disruptive School Closings?: Real Planning!
Rebuilding
Our Schools
NCBG is caling on the Chicago Public SChools to embrace comprehensive educational and facility master planning. Call on your elected
officials to endorse NCBG’s call for a Facilities Master Plan, "Building A Vision for
Chicago’s Schools & Neighborhoods." (2MB - )
and call for CPS to release its Capital Budget for 2006!
(Don’t know who your legislators are? Look them up at http://www.vote-smart.org/.)
BEST
Releases Public School Facilities Policy Report
Rebuilding
Our Schools
The BEST collaborative has developed a set of model policies based on a
four-part policy agenda to: 1) increase public participation in
facilities planning, 2) create and support schools as centers of
community that offer school-based supports to children to eliminate
barriers to success and serve the broader community, 3) improve
facilities management, including maintenance and capital improvement
programs and 4) secure adequate and equitable facilities funding.
Who
We Are
The Neighborhood Capital Budget Group is a unique citywide coalition of
grassroots community groups, neighborhood economic development
organizations, and concerned residents dedicated to equitable and smart
public investment in Chicago’s neighborhoods. Through NCBG,
Chicago’s community groups are organizing to hold local
government accountable for how it spends the public’s money
on infrastructure, economic development, mass transit, and public
facilities. Together, we’re working to rebuild all of
Chicago’s neighborhoods from the ground up, and put the
public back into “public works.” To read more see
the About Us page. To join
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