Mila Koumpilova

Mila Koumpilova

Senior Reporter, Chalkbeat Chicago

Mila Koumpilova is a Senior Reporter at Chalkbeat Chicago. She previously wrote about higher education and immigration at the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis. Mila has also covered education at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and The Forum in Fargo, N.D. A former North Dakota Rookie Reporter of the Year, she has received recognition from the Education Writers Association, the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists and others. She is a graduate of the American University in Bulgaria and the Missouri School of Journalism.

The district’s Office of the Inspector General had reopened an investigation into roughly decade-old allegations of inappropriate conduct by Hilario Dominguez, one of three candidates for school board president.

The district’s Office of the Inspector General closed an inquiry into an almost decade-old allegation that the Chicago Teachers Union-backed candidate made inappropriate comments to a former CPS student.

With just a month left before Election Day, most of Chicago’s major education special interests are pumping money into ads and texts to promote their preferred candidates or cut down opponents.