CTU political action committees have contributed more than $1 million to candidate campaign coffers so far in the city's first-ever school board election.
CHICAGO – Nearly $2.5 million in contributions have flowed into the coffers of 31 candidates vying for 10 Chicago school board seats. Those 10 people will be the first elected members of the city's newly configured school board. Mayor Brandon Johnson will appoint the other 11 members, including the board president, before the new hybrid school board takes office in January 2025.
How do candidates who have raised much less compete with those big fundraisers? 'They don't,' said Chris McCullough, an Education professor at DePaul University, who has served as a suburban school board president in the past. 'An individual that doesn't have those kinds of resources could be shut out of the race because now what that individual has to do is to stretch their funds so much further.'Some school districts have received hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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