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Buffy Lael-Wolf The Springfield Public Schools Board of Education will soon welcome two new members who could shift the balance on decisions like the best way for students to return in the fall. Both are newcomers to public office and work in the medical field. Both were also endorsed by the Springfield Education Association, which represents teachers in District 186. Erica Austin, who won the Subdistrict 6 seat, is deputy director for the office of community care at SIU School of Medicine, where she's assisted COVID-19 testing and vaccine e...

Ive’s crying and placing blame because her side lost. Gotta love that party of responsibility and self-reliance. This wasn’t a problem for these same people when it was their team doing it. My local community college board got taken over by partisan right wingers, and we just have to live with it. Agree with the suggestion to eliminate odd year elections. Saves money, makes sure your reps are elected by a representative number of voters. ===While Graham opposes political parties in local elections, teachers unions also should get out of the business of endorsing candidates, she said.=== ...

With 74.44% of precincts reporting, Laura Calderon, 42, was leading the way in the Ball-Chatham school board election.  The executive director of the Illinois Public Transportation Association and president of the Ball-Chatham Educational Foundation board has 874 of the 4,241 votes that have been tallied for one of the six candidates vying for four seats on the district’s board of education.  Tiffani Saunders (756), Andrea Rediger (733) and Ann Strahle (723) round out the top-four vote-getters so far in the race.  Ball-Chatham School Board President William Brewer (635) — the lone i...

By WMAY Newsroom Photo Credit: Facebook / Raina Kolba Challenger Buffy Lael-Wolf has won the race in Springfield school board subdistrict 5, defeating incumbent Tiffany Mathis, who was seeking election to a full term after being appointed to the seat in 2019. Mathis was one of the most outspoken advocates for getting students back into classrooms more quickly during the pandemic, while Lael-Wolf recommended a more cautious approach. Lael-Wolf received the endorsement of the Springfield Education Association. In the other contested Springfield school board race, another SEA-endorsed ca...

On top: Laura Calderon and William Brewer. On bottom, from left: Sherri Winters, Andrea Rediger, Tiffani Saunders and Ann Strahle. Campaigns for Ball-Chatham's school board are underway. The six candidates gathered virtually March 4 for a forum in advance of the April 6 election. There are four seats up for election. According to 2020 figures from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), of about 4,750 students in the public school district in Chatham, 77.8% are white, 7.4% are of two or more races, 5....