text: Jitu Brown and Jousef Shkoukani are pictured. A photo of Kernetha Jones was unable to be obtained. [Photos from campaign social media]
  Just one candidate is officially on the ballot in the Chicago Board of Education race in District 5 — Aaron "Jitu" Brown, an activist for education and national director for the Journey for Justice Alliance. Brown was part of the hunger strikes in 2015 that helped thwart plans to close Walter Dyett High School in Bronzeville.
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