Chicago Teachers Union poised to capture half of school board district seats, but likely to lose presidency

Despite being massively outspent, the Chicago Teachers Union was leading in nine of the 20 school board seats as of 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to election results from the Associated Press. That would be enough to throw up formidable opposition to classroom cuts, school closures and other measures that they see as contrary to their progressive agenda.A 10th candidate backed by the CTU-funded political group Our Schools also appeared to have won.The CTU’s candidate for board president, Hilario Dominguez, was trailing Jessica Biggs at that time. But if the teachers union secures a nine-member bloc, it would be enough to give a non-CTU-backed president like Biggs trouble.CTU’s biggest opponent in this race was billionaire and former advisor to Rahm Emanuel Michael Sacks and the political group Common Ground Collective, which Sacks put $6.8 million into over the past two months. Common Ground Collective appeared to have only won three contested races, though the group endorsed an additional