School board campaign donations top $2.3 million a month before election, as money pours in from teachers union and charter groups

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : This is far from first race for the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, or INCS.
56% : Urban Center Action is a super PAC led by Juan Rangel, the former head of the UNO Network of Charter Schools -- now known as Acero -- that launched this summer.
55% : In that same span, super PACs affiliated with school choice groups -- the Illinois Network of Charter Schools and the Urban Center -- are also spending big, logging $274,000 in spending in support of candidates in the past week, according to state records.
52% : "Underfunding and inequity in public schools has been the norm for the neighborhoods in Districts 10, 6, and 8," a CTU spokesperson wrote in an email to the Tribune.

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