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Jessica Biggs won the election for school board president over
CTU-backed candidate Hilario Dominguez, who told supporters it
was one moment in a longer fight.
“We ain’t going nowhere. This campaign was something much bigger
than one seat on a school board,” Dominguez said.
Biggs thanked voters in a social media post.
“So grateful for this incredible support and ready to move
Chicago Public Schools forward. The work starts now!” Biggs
posted.
CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said billionaires spent a
million dollars a week to support candidates for an unpaid
position.
Gates said CTU does not just bargain for sick time and personal
days.
“See, I’m ok to negotiate when I know that this union will take
it to the picket line if they need to lower class sizes,” Gates
said.
Gates said state education funding is billions of dollars in
arrears, and the rich should pay their fair share.
“We will be at a hearing of the House education committee to
discuss, listen to this, the $6 billion that the state of
Illinois, our governor, our General Assembly, owes all of the
schools in the state of Illinois,” Gates said.
The Illinois House Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary
Education Committee is scheduled to meet in Chicago on Thursday
afternoon.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said last week that discussions about fiscal
year 2028 would be held from now until the end of May.
The governor said he increased public education funding by $3
billion a year, and he had not heard about a move for
supplemental funding during the upcoming fall veto session.
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