Jeanette Ward, a member of Elgin's U-46 Board of Education, voted against the inclusion of the textbook Macgruder's American Government for the district's seventh- and eighth-grade social studies curriculum recently, arguing that it promotes racism and sexism and contains "pervasive liberal bias."
The final candidates for the 2017 Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District Trustees - 6-Year Term Election, to be held on April 4, are on the ballot.