North Cook News

All four members of the Team Glenbrook 225 slate finished on the outside looking in Tuesday night in the Glenbrook 225 School District race.

With four seats available on the seven-member board and with 62 of 66 precincts reporting, Carol Schmidt, Mai Lin Noffke, Paul Kelly and Bo Herbst were all averaging just over 6% of the vote, as Michelle Sequin, Bruce Doughty, Peter Glowacki and Matt O’Hara appeared on the verge of nailing down four-year terms.

Team Glenbrook’s “together everyone achieves more” motto revolved around its position for the full-time return to in-person learning.

“People should vote for us because our priority is to get everybody back in person in the classroom and the teachers teaching to the students again,” Lin Noffke told the North Cook News in the final days of the campaign. “Our platform is to get back to in-person learning and increased engagement.”

Team Glenbrook also billed itself as “an expert cross-section of Glenview and Northbrook neighborhoods with over 75 years of combined residency and a long history of community service and involvement throughout Glenbrook.”

Slate members held a rally last September where former Chicago Public School Superintendent Paul Vallas turned out to champion their return-to-school full-time position.

Later, Lin Noffke also pointed to a survey that found over 80% of parents and families supported a return to in-person learning. Noffke argued that the numbers pointed to a need for more transparency from the board about the decisions they were making.