Analysis: Chicago voters send two black women to mayoral runoff. Both of them want to halt charter school expansion.
Former prosecutor Lori Lightfoot, left, was the top vote-getter in Chicago's crowded mayoral election Tuesday. Toni Preckwinkle, the Cook County board president, came in second. Because neither candidate got 50 percent of the vote, they are headed to a runoff election in April.
Education was a pivotal issue in key races in November’s elections, including the ouster of Scott Walker as governor of Wisconsin by Tony Evers , a state superintendent of education who opposed Walker’s school policies, including his support for charter schools and vouchers. And in Chicago, a number of candidates made education a key campaign issue.
Few of the Chicago mayoral candidates showed much support for opening new charters. Lightfoot and Preckwinkle, who was endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, called for a halt to opening new charters and for an elected school board. Now, the mayor appoints members.
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