Nearly three years after leaving his post as Chicago Board of Education vice president, former teacher and Chicago Public Schools parent Sendhil Revuluri is vying to return, announcing his candidacy for school board president Wednesday.

If victorious in the November 2026 election, he aims to unite the board behind a common goal: making sure the children of Chicago are learning, Revuluri said in an interview with the Tribune ahead of his campaign announcement.

“There is a massive consensus across Chicago, in every neighborhood, across different identities, different affiliations, that we want our students to learn as much as they can, because that’s how we give them opportunity in the future,” he said. “That’s how we give them choices about what they do next.”

Revuluri, 50, is the first

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