Controversies over a past superintendent s curriculum changes and the current superintendent s equity plan has brought out a crowded field of school board candidates in Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59.
Ive’s crying and placing blame because her side lost.
Gotta love that party of responsibility and self-reliance.
This wasn’t a problem for these same people when it was their team doing it. My local community college board got taken over by partisan right wingers, and we just have to live with it.
Agree with the suggestion to eliminate odd year elections. Saves money, makes sure your reps are elected by a representative number of voters.
===While Graham opposes political parties in local elections, teachers unions also should get out of the business of endorsing candidates, she said.===
They should get out of the business of advocating for their members?
Teacher opposition ousts School Board President Krinsky in District 59 Upper from left, Daisy Espino, Janice Krinsky, Roberto Mancilla and lower from left, Joseph Sagerer, Mardell Schumacher are candidates for the Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59 school board in the 2021 election.
Updated 4/6/2021 10:19 PM
Janice Krinsky, school board president in Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59, appears to have been ousted by the political strength of widespread teacher opposition.
Krinsky, of Arlington Heights. had lost the backing of the faculty because of her previous support for departing Superintendent Art Fessler, the subject of controversy among teachers partly because of how he introduced a new currciulum.
With union support, establishment candidates turn back critics of gradual school reopenings
Updated 4/7/2021 2:00 PM
Voters throughout the Northwest suburbs sent educators a message Tuesday for the most part endorsing the gradual reopening approach most districts have taken in response to the pandemic.
In school district after school district, candidates who put a priority on listening to the health experts were elected, apparently often with the help of teachers unions.
This was the case in Glenbard High School District 87, Stevenson High School District 125, Palatine-Schaumburg Townships District 211 and Northwest Suburban High School District 214.
But there were exceptions: In Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 and Barrington Unit District 220, voters split their choices between measured reopening candidates and those who were strongly critical of the remote learning environment.