Chicago School Board member Jessica Biggs faces scrutiny over 2018 firing as she runs for president's seat
Chicago School Board member Jessica Biggs is facing scrutiny during her campaign for board president due to her 2018 firing. Biggs was dismissed as principal of Burke Elementary and was previously banned from working within Chicago Public Schools. She is currently one of four candidates in the race for the district's first elected board president.
This story was reported and published in collaboration with Chalkbeat Chicago.Jessica Biggs holds up her work leading a South Side elementary school as a top reason voters should pick her in an intense four-way race for Chicago’s first elected school board president.That’s even though she was fired from that job as principal at Burke Elementary in 2018, and until recently, was banned from working in Chicago Public Schools.Biggs, a current school board member, has long maintained she was…
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