Public policy and new legislation is made at the local, state and federal level.  The Illinois state house in Springfield is currently led by two Democrats, John Cullerton in the State Senate and Michael Madigan in the State House of Representatives.  On the Federal level in Washington DC,  the House of Representative's Speaker of the House is Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California, and Harry Reid is the leader of the Senate.

Click here to identify who your State Senator and Representative are.

The Illinois Congressional (Federal-level) delegation includes:

U.S. Senators:
Richard J. Durbin (D)            Roland Burris (D)

U.S. Representatives:
1.  Bobby Rush (D)                 11.  Jerry Weller (R)
2.  Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D)        12.  Jerry Costello (D)
3.  Daniel Lipinski (D)              13.  Judy Biggert (R)
4.  Luis Gutierrez (D)              14.  Debbie Halverson (D)
5.  Mike Quigley   (D)             15.  Timothy V. Johnson (R)
6.  Peter Roskam (R)              16.  Donald Manzullo (R)
7.  Danny Davis (D)                17.  Phil Hare (D)
8.  Melissa Bean (D)               18.  Aaron Schock (R)
9.  Janice Schakowsky (D)       19.  John Shimkus (R)
10.  Mark Kirk (R)

 The Federation for Community Schools encourages all members to make their voices heard with their state and Federal legislators! Contact your legislators by phone or email; invite them and their teams to visit your community schools and see your work first hand; build relationships with your legislators and share with them your priorities for funding and support; and most of all, let them know what is important to you.