As school board election nears, CPS parents incensed by political group at school event
Chicago Public Schools parents are calling for sanctions against the Common Ground Collective for alleged electioneering at a school festival. The group reportedly hosted an arts and crafts table during a back-to-school event at Peirce Elementary School. District rules prohibit political campaigning on school grounds during such events.
Parents and other members of a Local School Council are asking Chicago Public Schools to sanction an organization that they say violated the district’s rules by electioneering at a back-to-school festival on school grounds.Dad Adam Johnson, who has one child at Peirce Elementary School in the Edgewater neighborhood, said parents who walked up to an arts and crafts table hosted by the Common Ground Collective might have assumed it was a “kind of generic liberal, if not hippie-ish…
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