For the first time in Chicago history, voters this year will get to choose some of the members of the Chicago Board of Education, which is on schedule fo be a fully voter-elected board by 2027.

Chicago’s first school board election is coming at a time of turmoil for the city’s public school system. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hand-picked school board president, Reverend Mitchell Johnson, resigned last week after it was discovered that he had made antisemitic posts on social media and supported conspiracy theories about the Sept.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is banking on $300 million in new property taxes from residents in his latest budget. He and his former coworkers at the Chicago Teachers Union want a progressive state income tax to deliver more money to them,

After being solely under control of the mayor for the last 30 years, voters on Tuesday will elect members of the Chicago Board of Education.

Thirty-one people are running to represent 10 districts in an election that has morphed into a battle between Johnson’s allies at the Chicago Teachers Union and their opponents.