School Board Elections 2024
Chicago is voting for school board members for the first time on Nov. 5, 2024. Chalkbeat teamed up with Block Club Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times, and WBEZ to help voters get up to speed on the issues and who is running in each of the new electoral districts.
Chicago will elect 10 new school board members in 2024, ending 30 years of mayoral control.
Chalkbeat, WBEZ, and the Chicago Sun-Times partnered to get to know the candidates running for school board and ask them a series of policy questions. Use this guide to search who is running and find out where they stand on the issues.
Chicagoans will elect school board members for the first time on Nov. 5. Here’s a guide to who is running in each district.
The resignations will come after weeks of pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration to oust CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and take out a high-interest loan to cover costs — which the mayor’s appointed board has so far declined to do.
The pro-school choice advocacy group contributed enough in several board districts to lift campaign contribution limits for all candidates.
The Chicago neighborhoods that either Raquel Don, Yesenia Lopez, or Eva A. Villalobos will represent include Pilsen, Little Village, Bridgeport, and Brighton Park.
The Chicago neighborhoods that Therese Boyle, Miquel Lewis, Lanetta Thomas, and La’Mont Raymond Williams will represent include Washington Heights, Beverly, and Auburn-Gresham.
Chicagoans will elect school board members for the first time on Nov. 5. Here’s a guide to who is running in each district.
The Chicago neighborhoods that Kate Doyle, Ebony DeBerry, Maggie Cullerton Hooper, or Bruce Leon will represent include parts of West Ridge, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Andersonville, Lincoln Square, Albany Park, North Park, and Uptown.
Kimberly Brown, Andrew A. Davis, Thomas Day, Carmen Gioiosa, Ellen Rosenfeld, and Karen Zaccor come from different backgrounds, ranging from teaching and community organizing to marketing and the military.
Chicago School Board District 5 stretches from the West Loop to Austin. There is one candidate on the ballot — Aaron ‘Jitu’ Brown — and two people running as write-ins: Jousef Shkoukani and Kernetha Jones.
The Chicago neighborhoods that either Jennifer Custer or Michelle N. Pierre will represent include Jefferson Park, Edison Park, Portage Park, and Norwood Park.
The Chicago neighborhoods that either Angel Gutierrez or Felix Ponce will represent stretch from the South Loop to McKinley Park, and Back of the Yards.
The Chicago neighborhoods where Robert Jones, Karin Norington-Reaves, Adam Parrott-Sheffer, and Che 'Rhymefest' Smith are vying for a school board seat stretch from Hyde Park to the Illinois-Indiana border.
District 6 has three candidates on the ballot and one write-in candidate running for a seat in Chicago’s first school board race. Here’s what you should know.
The Chicago neighborhoods that Jason Dónes or Carlos Rivas Jr. will represent include parts of Humboldt Park, Hermosa, Belmont Cragin, Logan Square, Avondale, Old Irving Park, and Mayfair.
Chalkbeat, WBEZ, and the Chicago Sun-Times partnered to get to know the candidates running for school board and ask them a series of policy questions. Use this guide to search who is running and find out where they stand on the issues.
Chicago’s Board of Education oversees policies that can impact how well students do in school. Academic performance has improved at CPS over the past three decades, but there is vast room for improvement.
The Chicago Board of Education owns more than 800 school buildings, annexes, and other property. It would cost $14.4 billion to update and repair all of Chicago’s public school buildings.
The new strategic plan also focuses on providing more support to Black students, those with disabilities, younger children, and English language learners.
The Chicago Board of Education oversees many different types of schools, including magnets, selective enrollment, and charters.
The Chicago Board of Education is one of the state’s largest employers with more than 41,000 people on staff.
The Chicago Board of Education is responsible for the education of about 323,000 students. But they’re enrolled unevenly across the 10 new school board districts.