Mixed results for CTU as Chicagoans vote for first elected school board

CHICAGO – Makeup Chicago’s first elected school board comes into view.

More than $5 million has been spent on these races to help shape the future of a beleaguered people. Chicago Public Schools system.

It clashed with special interests such as Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) v. Charter School Companies. Voters went to polling stations in 10 districts of the city.

Here are the winners, or those who won, with just a few precincts left to count (from Districts 1-10): Jennifer Custer, Ebony DeBarry, Carlos Rivas, Ellen Rosenfeld, Aaron “Jitu” Brown, Jessica Biggs, Yesenia. Lopez, Angel Guzman, Teresa Boyle and Che “Rimfest” Smith.

CTU supported participation in all of these races. Four of their backed candidates won, although one ran unopposed and another criticized the union.

The election brought mixed results for the CTU, which spent a lot of its members’ money to take over the school board.

Mayor Brandon Johnson will still be able to appoint 11 more members until 2027, when all members are elected, meaning the future of CPS CEO Pedro Martinez is in doubt as the mayor and CTU have expressed a desire for him to resign.

CTU sought to link opposition candidates to Donald Trump, Republican billionaires and Project 2025. Some of the opposition candidates sought to link CTU candidates to Johnson. Ultimately, the election results were mixed.

CTU President Stacy Davis Gates called it a victory, saying in a statement: “The billionaires who support Project 2025 lost big in Chicago. helping communities that have had to go without food for generations.”