Klimkowicz becomes new District 211 board president Anna Klimkowicz
Posted4/30/2021 5:05 AM
Anna Klimkowicz, the longest-serving board member of Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211, emerged as board president Thursday after a contentious internal vote that followed her reelection in one of the most hotly contested races in the Northwest suburbs on April 6.
Klimkowicz has served on the board of education for 24 years, but she has never been board president. Two-year board member Mark Cramer nominated and voted for himself, while six-year board member Pete Dombrowski nominated and voted for newly elected Tim McGowan, who had been seated only moments before.
McGowan joined the majority in voting for Klimkowicz.
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Slate endorsed by teachers union leading pack in District 211 Anna Klimkowicz Roxanne Wittkamp Upper from left, Curtis Bradley, Jessica Hinkle, Anna Klimkowicz, Tim McGowan and lower from left, Kristen Steel, Robi Vollkommer, Denise Wilson and Roxanne Wittkamp are High School District 211 board candidates in the April 6, 2021 election.
Updated 4/6/2021 10:42 PM
Three candidates supportive of Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 s handling of the pandemic and finances have taken an early lead in the election of three seats on the board of education.
Leading the pack with 146 of 148 precincts reporting were newcomer Curtis Bradley with 8,074 votes, the sole incumbent Anna Klimkowicz with 7,986 votes and Timothy McGowan with 7,430 votes all on a slate endorsed by the teachers union.
Union endorsements in Districts 211, 214 raise stir A mailer from the Northwest Suburban Teachers Union lists its endorsed candidates for the boards in Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 and Northwest Suburban High School District 214. Courtesy of Mark Cramer
Updated 4/1/2021 8:47 AM
Teachers union endorsements of school board candidates in two of the largest high school districts in the suburbs are generating debate over what they should and shouldn t mean to voters.
A recent mailer from the Northwest Suburban Teachers Union endorses candidates for the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 and Northwest Suburban High School District 214 boards. The union endorses incumbent Anna Klimkowicz and newcomers Curtis Bradley and Tim McGowan in District 211, plus incumbents Mark Hineman, Mildred Palmer and Lenny Walker as well as newcomer Andrea Rauch in District 214.
Updated 3/17/2021 3:11 PM
A former Palatine High School teacher fired last summer over a controversial Facebook post is suing a candidate for the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board for what she alleges were defamatory statements intended to harm her.
Jeanne Hedgepeth s lawsuit against Palatine resident Tim McGowan seeks in excess of $50,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for defamation and intentional interference with an existing business relationship. It was filed last month in a Cook County court.
The lawsuit claims McGowan made knowingly false statements in a Facebook post and video in June in an effort to have Hedgepeth fired from Palatine High School, where she d worked since 2000.
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