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Dora King was a substitute Waukegan teacher in 2012 after retiring from a long career at AT&T when the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) took control of North Chicago School District 187, created the Independent Authority acting as a school board and made her its president.

“We acted to support public education,” King said. “We were working with the community. It was a very difficult time. We needed to get people involved, and buy into the importance of public education.”

Sylvia Johnson Jones, a North Chicago native and the executive director of the Career and Job Placement Center of the College of Lake County until her retirement last year, was appointed to the Independent Authority in 2015. She knew what she wanted the district to a

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