As school board election nears, CPS parents incensed by political group at school event
Parents at Peirce Elementary School are asking Chicago Public Schools to sanction the Common Ground Collective for alleged electioneering. The group reportedly campaigned at a back-to-school festival, which parents claim violates district rules. The incident occurs as school board elections approach in the Edgewater neighborhood.
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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