{"id":684,"date":"2026-08-17T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/?p=684"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:21:54","slug":"chicago-board-of-education-appointed-seats-2026-transition","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/politics\/chicago-board-of-education-appointed-seats-2026-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Board of Education \u2014 Appointed Seats &#038; 2026 Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is moving to a fully elected school board. The current 21-member board is a hybrid: 10 members were elected in November 2024 (listed individually here) and 11 were appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, with appointed member Sean B. Harden serving as Board President. All 21 seats \u2014 one citywide president plus 20 sub-district seats \u2014 are on the November 3, 2026 ballot; the winners take office in January 2027, creating Chicago&#8217;s first fully elected Board of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is moving to a fully elected school board. The current 21-member board is a hybrid: 10 members were elected in November 2024 (listed individually here) and 11 were appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, with appointed member Sean B. Harden serving as Board President. All 21 seats \u2014 one citywide[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1585,"menu_order":520,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[69],"class_list":["post-684","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","politics-category-school-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}