D209 CAMPAIGN Medina and Kubricht

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Township would become a district able to attract strong educators, rather than having teachers flee Kubricht said he admires the educators who have stayed amidst the chaos and taken on bigger roles in the lives of their students

“They have done a phenomenal job at stretching the limits of the resources the superintendent is currently giving them,” Kubricht said, praising recent musical perfor mances “The teachers have really stepped it up in filling in the gaps in what has been taken away A lot of the stuff they are doing at this point is not stuff that would nor mally fall under the responsibilities of a teacher They are not getting the appreciation that they should be.”

If the district has any hope of tur ning over a new leaf, Kubricht and Medina say a new board majority is crucial.

“We really need to change the vote count on the board so that the ‘Henderson 5’ no longer rubber stamps everything the superintendent decides and that we can actually make decisions that benefit the students and bring the school back to where it really should be from an educational standpoint,” Kubricht said. “Regardless of whether people support me or my running mate, I do hope everybody will get out and vote on April 4. It is a crucial election, and we need three good people in there that are not connected to the Henderson regime.”

Early voting in the April 4 Consolidated Election began on Monday, March 20 and will continue through April 3.

D209 candidate debate

Candidates for the District 209 Proviso Township High Schools board will meet in a debate on March 27 at 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by the group Best of Proviso it will be held at the Westchester Library, 10700 Canterbury St.

Next week

Forest Park Review will continue its profiles of candidates for the District 209 high school board.