Chicago's first-ever school board race sees pro-school choice groups amassing millions in donations: report
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The Urban Center Action and Illinois Network of Charter Schools’ have amassed $3.6 million in donations combined ahead of Chicago’s first ever school board election in November.
The UCA and INCS set up independent expenditure committees to accept cash donations like PACs, the Sun Times reported. These types of committees can’t coordinate with candidates directly. They can accept an unlimited amount of money and indirectly support candidates’ campaigns by sending fliers and running advertisements. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
While running independent expenditure committees, the two groups also have traditional political action committees (PAC), which are limited in the amount of donations they can receive. Unlike independent expenditure committees, PACs can be used to donate directly to candidates. Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.