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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

No pay for elected school board members shuts out underrepresented communities

A fifth-grade class at Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School. There is a push in the Illinois Legislature to pay Chicago Public Schools board members who will be elected next year. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

The Sun-Times editorial opposing pay for elected school board members encourages perpetuating a system that undermines public service and fair representation of all communities (“Say no to pay for Chicago school board members” — Oct. 30).

Those who pursue elected office do so to serve the public and, in the case of many Latinos, to be a voice for underrepresented communities — and they do so at a considerable personal cost.

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