Vacant Champaign School Board seats to be filled by end of next week

Will Simmons
·1 min read

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The two vacant seats on Champaign’s Unit 4 School District Board should be filled by the end of next week. The candidate pool for filling the seats has already narrowed significantly.

Current board members couldn’t come to an agreement on finding replacements for the two vacant seats, so Regional Superintendent Gary Lewis stepped in to take over the process. Lewis said the candidate pool has been narrowed from 28 to 12.

Nine candidates were carried over from the district’s applicants. Those candidates are:

  • Brenda Foster

  • Anthony Bruno

  • Adam Harris

  • Bradley Mehrtens

  • Justin Hendrix

  • Sam Banks

  • Christy Arnold

  • Roselle Bhosale

  • Charles Young

Three applicants sent their requests directly to the Board of Education:

  • Mark Holm

  • Robert Jackson Jr.

  • Steve Gardner

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Interviews will be next Wednesday and Thursday. Lewis and his committee of four will help him make the final decision.

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