DECATUR â The recent school board election was historic in a national sense.
Banks is a Decatur native and graduate of Eisenhower High School, where she was active in student government, the Superintendent s Youth Advisory Council, and served on a committee to study the then-new uniform requirements in the high schools and make changes to the dress code in response to student requests.
In a 2012 Herald & Review story about those uniform requirements, Banks said students must learn to speak up and make their voices heard and she s been making hers heard ever since.
Banks was one of four candidates elected to the board Tuesday in a race that featured seven candidates, none of which were incumbents.
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