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Board members Tony DeMonte and Steve Carlson are running to retain their seats, while fellow incumbent Thomas Drake is not running for reelection. The challengers include Beth Pope, Mark Piszkiewicz, Lynn Ulrich and Mercedes Shackleford.
Schools across Lake County are seeing modest increases in student performance on standardized tests, newly released 2022 Illinois School Report Card data shows. And that's likely the result of intervention efforts by school districts to provide struggling students with more resources, officials say.
The board ultimately felt that installing metal detectors in the district’s two schools wouldn’t be a worthwhile move.