Voters across the Chicago suburbs and around the state turned back attempts to pull local school boards to the right in Tuesday’s elections, though conservative candidates had pockets of success, winning enough seats to take control in some districts.
Kara Casten, wife of U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, formed a slate with two other Downers Grove residents, Ken Dawson, left, and Don Renner, to run for the District 99 school board. A slate of conservative candidates was defeated by the group, according to unofficial results.
“Fortunately, the voters saw through the hidden extremists who were running for school board across the suburbs,” Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday during an unrelated news conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “I mean, really, the extremists got trounced yesterday.”
voted against removing books on LGBTQ subjects from school libraries to the board, along with one newcomer. “We know how engaged this community is and some of the things going on did not represent the broader community,” Kara Casten said in an interview Thursday. “The election showed that those things don’t represent our community — they want inclusion, they want diversity, they want teachers respected and supported.”
The PAC last month reported spending more than $3,700 on mailers supporting three candidates for the board of Lyons Township High School District 204, which serves nearly 4,000 students from La Grange, Western Springs and surrounding towns in suburban Cook County. Once all the ballots are counted, “I hope we can focus on the real issues in our district,” said Julie Kulovits, who was also backed by the teachers union.
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