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For the first time in Chicago’s history, voters on Tuesday chose 10 people to be on the city’s partially elected, 21-member school board.
Now there’s a new question: Who will Mayor Brandon Johnson choose as the remaining 11 board members?
Chicagoans may not know the answer for another month because state law gives Johnson until Dec. 16 to make his appointments.
But early election results, the mayor’s recent overhaul of the school board , and the mayor’s alliances provide some clues as to whom Johnson could pick. The mayor’s office did not respond to requests for an interview in time for this story.
Preliminary election results show that four winners were backed by the teachers union — the mayor’s close ally — in Districts 1, 2, 5, and 7. Three more people, backed by pro-school choice groups, won in Districts 3, 4, and 8. And the remaining winners, in Districts 6, 9, and 10, did not take money or volunteer support from the union, pro-charter, or pro-school choice groups.