With nearly all the precincts counted, Therese Boyle is leading in the school board District 9 race, according to results from the Associated Press. Boyle is a retired CPS teacher and school psychologist.
Boyle worked for many years in schools across the South Side. She could not be reached Tuesday night, but Boyle previously said she believed she would be propelled to victory by her deep ties to her neighborhood of Mt. Greenwood and schools she had worked in.
She also was part of a group that opposed the current Chicago Teachers Union leadership and lost a bid in 2019 to replace Stacy Davis Gates as president of the union.
She beat an independent candidate, a CTU-endorsed candidate and a candidate who had strong support from the Illinois Network of Charter Schools and Urban Center Action — two pro-charter school, anti-Chicago Teachers Union groups.
District 9 includes Beverly and Mount Greenwood on the south and New City and Canaryville on the north. It has almost 100 schools, one-fifth run by private charter school operators and dozens of low-enrollment elementary schools.
On the WBEZ/Sun-Times/Chalkbeat questionnaire, Boyle said she did not support charter schools, but she would close under-utilized schools and bring police officers back into schools.
Boyle is not a proponent of charter schools. She has had concerns about their ability to serve students with disabilities. But she notes that state law requires the district to consider and support charter schools, and while that is in place, she would give them fair consideration.
Out campaigning, Boyle said she found that families in District 9 are committed to their magnet and selective enrollment schools. On the questionnaire, she said she would not want to take away that experience. But she said she wants neighborhood schools to be just as good as selective schools.
Boyle pointed to the new way CPS distributes money to schools, which is based more on student need than on enrollment. She said she hopes it will help level funding.
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