EVANSTON – The District Educators’ Council (DEC), District 65 Educational Secretarial and Clerical Association (DESC), Evanston Association of Child Care Professionals (EACCP), Evanston Custodial Maintenance Association (ECMA) and the Evanston Teacher Assistants Association (ETAA) have joined together as a coalition to recommend candidates for the Evanston-Skokie School District 65 (D65) School Board election on April 1.
The coalition of District 65 educator unions is recommending the following candidates:
- Patricia Anderson
- Peter Bogira
- Chris Van Nostrand
- Andrew Wymer
These candidates are being recommended after the educator union coalition hosted a school board candidate forum on Sat., March 1. All school board candidates were invited to attend virtually.
Representatives from each union, which included local presidents, were present. The forum was moderated by IEA member and National Education Association (NEA) Director Bill Farmer who asked the candidates various questions ranging from fiscal responsibility to educator autonomy, after-school programming, and much more.
The local unions strongly believe in equity and diversity for all. They believe in partnering with the school board and school leadership. They look forward to and strongly encourage open communication and transparency to reach optimum results for all stakeholders, most importantly the students.
DEC, DESC, EACCP, ECMA and ETAA together represent more than 1,000 educators and staff working in the D65 school district. They serve the more than 6,100 students attending D65’s 19 schools, centers and sites.
The D65 school board election is April 1. Early voting begins March 17.
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The 135,000 member Illinois Education Association (IEA-NEA) is the state’s largest union. IEA represents Pre K-12 teachers outside the city of Chicago and education support staff, higher education faculty, retired education employees and students preparing to become teachers, statewide.
