Amid the heated debates in recent months over school reopenings, some Northwest suburban school districts are seeing larger-than-usual fields of candidates who intend to run for their local school boards in April.
More than 480 school board candidates submitted paperwork on the first official filing day Monday across four locations set up by the Cook County clerk’s office. That included 140 candidates who stood in line to hand in their petitions at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect.
Candidates have until the close of business next Monday to turn in their nominating paperwork. But already, many of the new candidates are parents who’ve become regulars of their local school board meetings, where the reopening debate has raged through the pandemic.
Barrington Unit District 220 board Vice President Sandra Ficke-Bradford is the lone incumbent to have filed this week. She was joined by Lauren Klauer, Erin Chan Ding, William Betz and Alex Michael Strobl in a bid for four spots on the panel.
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