Eleven people are competing to fill five open seats on the Champaign Unit 4 Board of Education. IPM News asked the candidates to answer yes-or-no questions related to issues that have come before the board in recent years.
About three-quarters of districts in Illinois are struggling to hire bus drivers, cafeteria workers and teachers’ aides. Workers in Champaign want to know how future board members will help them.
Six candidates say students should learn African American history and the history of racism. The seventh, business owner Mark Holm, declined to be interviewed.