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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are pleased to recognize Chicago Tribune | ||||||
4 | reporter Gary Marx on receiving the Education Writers's Award | ||||||
5 | for his series with David Jackson on truancy; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The Education Writers Association has given a top | ||||||
7 | award to a 2012 Chicago Tribune series that used internal | ||||||
8 | Chicago attendance data to reveal a devastating pattern of | ||||||
9 | school absences in grades K-8 that disproportionately affects | ||||||
10 | African-American youth and children with disabilities; while | ||||||
11 | Chicago officials for years published upbeat attendance | ||||||
12 | statistics, the newspaper found roughly 32,000 elementary | ||||||
13 | students missed at least a month of classes in a year, while | ||||||
14 | thousands more simply vanished from the attendance rolls; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Chosen from among hundreds of submissions across | ||||||
16 | the country, the series won first prize for investigative | ||||||
17 | reporting among large newspapers; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Days after the publication of the series in | ||||||
19 | November 2012, State lawmakers began working on reforms aimed | ||||||
20 | at saving thousands of children from isolation and failure; and
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21 | WHEREAS, Gary Marx is an investigative reporter with the |
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1 | Chicago Tribune; he started at the Tribune in 1988; he has been | ||||||
2 | the paper's South America correspondent (1990-1994), covered | ||||||
3 | criminal justice, and served on the foreign staff based in | ||||||
4 | Havana, Cuba from 2002-2007; he has covered numerous armed | ||||||
5 | conflicts and U.S. military operations including Iraq, | ||||||
6 | Somalia, Hati, and Colombia; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Gary Marx is a 2-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in | ||||||
8 | investigative reporting; other national awards he has received | ||||||
9 | include the Heywood Broun Award, the IRE FOI Medal, the | ||||||
10 | Education Writers Association Grand Prize, and a National Press | ||||||
11 | Club Award; for his abroad work, he has received the Overseas | ||||||
12 | Press Club Citation, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and the | ||||||
13 | Inter-American Press Association Human Rights Award; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Gary Marx began his journalism career in 1983 with | ||||||
15 | the Christian Science Monitor and later joined the Orlando | ||||||
16 | Sentinel; he has a bachelors of arts from Harvard and a masters | ||||||
17 | degree from the London School of Economics; in 2001, he was a | ||||||
18 | John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and in 2008 he was | ||||||
19 | a visiting Fellow at Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute of | ||||||
20 | International Studies; therefore, be it | ||||||
21 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
22 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
23 | we recognize Chicago Tribune reporter Gary Marx on receiving |
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1 | the Education Writers's Award for his series with David Jackson | ||||||
2 | on truancy and thank him for his efforts in investigative | ||||||
3 | journalism to uncover those stores that need to be told; and be | ||||||
4 | it further
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5 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
6 | presented to Gary Marx as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
7 | respect.
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