Though results are not yet final, the 220 teachers union was only successful in getting two of four candidates (Erin Chan Ding and incumbent Sandra Ficke-Bradford) elected to the District 220 Board of Education.
Voters throughout the Northwest suburbs sent educators a message Tuesday — for the most part endorsing the gradual reopening approach most districts have taken in response to the pandemic.
In school district after school district, candidates who put a priority on listening to the health experts were elected, apparently often with the help of teachers unions.
This was the case in Glenbard High School District 87, Stevenson High School District 125, Palatine-Schaumburg Townships District 211 and Northwest Suburban High School District 214.
But there were exceptions: In Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 and Barrington Unit District 220, voters split their choices between measured reopening candidates and those who were strongly critical of the remote learning environment.
Voter concerns about the impact of the pandemic on local students did not turn out many incumbents.
Out of 34 incumbents in contested races on school board ballots throughout the Northwest suburbs, only three appeared to have been defeated, according to unofficial tallies — Janice Krinsky in Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59, Michael Shackleton in Barrington Unit District 220, and Aurora Austriaco in Maine Township High School District 207.
Unions openly backed candidates in Glenview Elementary District 34, Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59, Glenbard High School District 87, Palatine-Schaumburg Townships High School District 211, Northwest Suburban High School District 214, and Glenbrook High Schools District 225, among others.
Those union candidates were successful virtually everywhere. The lone exception was in District 220 where union-backed candidates Lauren Berkowitz Klauer and Thomas J. Mitoraj lost.
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Sadly, the union machine, also known as the Barrington “Education” Association (BEA), had already fomented its lies regarding ACTION candidates, utilizing alleged ‘non-partisan’ culprits Pres Kazmier and VP Ficke-Bradford, League of Women Voters, and union money while building up the true single issue candidates, Ficke-Bradford and Chan Ding. The BEA had months of their favorite tactics of indoctrination and fear mongering to support and discredit before the electorate were shown evidence of Ficke-Bradford and Chan Dings’ true nature on the eve of election. We will be watching these two closely and looking into the grooming process that took place.
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candidate elect, Chan Ding. This is how the union machine operates and infiltrated and we need to stop it!
“Erin Chan Ding come clean. Your constant backpedaling and deflecting on all of this makes it abundantly clear that you should not serve on the school board as you’re incapable of understanding a lie by omission. I’d have much more respect for you if you’d just admit: you were coached by Kazmier and Ficke-Bradford; you appropriated your attack crew (Shahnaz and Annette) through the group that orchestrated Strobl’s meeting, as well as your Committee Chair (Helen Handley) and Treasurer (Wanchalee Mui, a D220 teacher and BEA member); you accepted money from the union lobbyists; you accepted in kind donations from the BEA and union; and, you violated campaign disclosures by sending out mail pieces without disclosing who they were paid for by. Instead, you constantly show up acting as though you’re just running a positive campaign with righteous indignation when questioned on any of these matters… “
Here’s what respect the BEA and its parent IEA have for the parents and taxpayers (note the BEA ‘likes’ the IEA’s 💪 tweet). We must take back the BoE and only an educated and involved electorate can make that happen. Observer, please keep posting about this issue! https://twitter.com/ieanea/status/1379953393406521345?s=21