At a special board meeting tonight, the Glen Ellyn District 41 School Board voted 4-1 in favor of going mask-optional, allowing its 3,576 students to attend school for the first time in nearly two years with their faces uncovered.
A wave of color sweeps into local offices Top, left to right, Tim McGowan, Yasmeen Bankole, Curtis Bradley, Tayyaba Syed, Steve Wang, Erin Chan Ding. Bottom, left to right, Dan Choi, Syed Hussaini, Sol Cabechuela, Paul Leong, Shweta Baid, Ian Holzhauer. These are just some of the minority candidates who ran successfully for municipal and school board offices in the April 6 election.
Updated 4/24/2021 4:53 PM
A wave of minority candidates from diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds swept over the suburbs during the spring elections, as dozens of contenders stepped up to seek positions on municipal, school, township, library and park boards.
With four seats open, the
Daily Herald reports Emerson finished fifth out of eight candidates with 1,945 votes.
Incumbents Robert Bruno and Joe Loebach held onto their seats, while newcomers Tayyaba Syed and Chris Marteli also emerged victorious.
As the battle intensified, Emerson, who ran on a platform of a full-time return to in-person learning, stressed that her run was all about doing what she feels is best for the community.
Emerson said she was shocked at how partisan the race came to be, as illustrated by a phone call she received late in the campaign from Indivisible DuPage attorney Matt Gasaway that she said she found to be threatening as he peppered her about online posts he felt were off base.
Syed has lead in Glen Ellyn District 41 with Bruno and Loebach in top 3 Tayyaba Syed is a candidate for the District 41 school board in the April 2021 election. Upper from left, Robert Bruno, Adam Collins, Jodee Dunham, Abigail Emerson and lower from left, Jason Loebach, Chris Martelli, Millie Sessions and Tayyaba Syed are candidates for Glen Ellyn District 41 school board in the April 6, 2021 election. Robert Bruno is a candidate for the District 241 school board in the April 2021 election. Adam Collins is a candidate for the District 41 school board in the April 2021 election. Jodee Dunham is a candidate for the District 200 school board in the April 2021 election.