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School board president unfairly ousted

Minutes after the clock struck 5 p.m., Patricia Easley sat on a window ledge in the Chicago Board of Elections supersite furiously signing her name. “Thank you. It means so much to me,” she said to the election workers waiting for her. Easley wanted to run to represent a Chicago School Board distri...

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Left / center-left51 candidates are running for Chicago’s first fully elected school board

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Chicago Sun-TimesNews report · May 27, 12:21 AM

51 candidates are running for Chicago’s first fully elected school board

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Minutes after the clock struck 5 p.m., Patricia Easley sat on a window ledge in the Chicago Board of Elections supersite furiously signing her name. “Thank you. It means so much to me,” she...

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Courthouse NewsNews report · May 26, 7:48 PM

School board president unfairly ousted

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SCRANTON, Penn. — A Pennsylvania federal court granted partial summary judgment to a former school board president who sued the district and several board members for violating his due proc...

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May 26, 7:48 PM: Courthouse News joined the source map.

May 27, 12:21 AM: Chicago Sun-Times joined the source map.

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