“Doctor Y” … Dr. YERKES is Running for SCHOOL BOARD in Oak Lawn

February 6, 2025

Please “Write-in Candidate” Kenneth J. Yerkes for Oak Lawn Community School Board, District 229, 2025 Consolidated Election 2025, April 1rst, 2025.

“America is not free unless ‘We The People” can speak and live freely."

“People And Principles Over Money and Power” is, was, and will always be my Campaign Motto.

CALLED to run AGAINST a Holocaust Denier, White Supremacist, Arthur Jones in 2018, who received close to 60,000 votes to my “1039 Write-In Votes,” refusing to take one penny, in my former Illinois Congressional District 3, now my Illinois Congressional District 6, I will always Run to Represent the Good People in my District when CALLED. Congressman Dan Lipinski won that election.

CALLED to Run for Illinois House District 31, in 2022, I stepped up AGAINST a 38 year incumbent, and Madigan Ally, in my Illinois House District 31. I received over 49.4 percent of the vote in Suburban Cook County, which included Hometown, parts of My Hometown, Oak Lawn, Bridgeview, Palos Hills, Hickory Hills, and Justice for all of Illinois.

And CALLED a 3rd Time in around Thanksgiving, 2024, I am again answering the call, and running as a “Write-In Candidate,” Kenneth J. Yerkes, PLEASE write me in.

In Closing,

As a Healthcare Provider, a Dentist of over 42 years, with a Master’s of Arts Degree in Education, and holding a State of Illinois High School Teaching License, I have the talent to speak to, address, and try to solve the many problems that face so many public schools these days.

Having the best of parents, the hardest of workers, my dad worked 76 years as a union plumber and some years as a Union Plumbing Contractor on the Southwest side of Chicago in Marquette Park where I was born. He retired at age 92. I was raised right, skipped kindergarten, because my mom knew I would lecture the teacher and I already learned what I needed to know in kindergarten.

There are so many problems that need to be solved in public schools, most notably lack of parents rights and parent involvement, and lack of discipline and respect for teachers and students alike.

I wish I could write what I want to say about how we need to improve our public schools, but that would take up more lines, more paragraphs, and more chapters, and possibly books to say what I need to say.

Therefore, I will simply state a couple of the main issues that need to be addressed, and just some problems that need to be solved, and at least noted and improved upon.

1. Better Academic Outcomes … Given the fact that in the school year, 2020-2021, the proficiency of only 22 percent of the students could do Math at grade level, only 21 percent of students could read at grade level, I will use my talents and leadership ability to oversee that these numbers improve.

2. Subjects Taught, Subjects Learned, and Critical Thinking Skills Encouraged and Supported …What is being taught? What books are students subjected to in the school library, and who is responsible for handing out content to our high school school children. Being minors, parents are responsible for their high school aged children, as is everyone who hands out material to minors, relating to content, both in words and images. I am presently in the process of giving up one of my Thursdays, in order to teach in High School, in several local high schools, both private and public, and I will use my observation skills to report what I find to be successful educational practices whenever exposed to them.

3. I will try to be a strong advocate for Transparency, Accountability, and Fiscal Responsibility. In the school year, 2020-2021, we paid $25, 061 per student. Being both an Oak Lawn Resident and Business Owner, I don’t have to remind you that a large part of your tax bill comes from teachers’ salaries, teachers’ health benefits, and teachers’ benefits. I believe I read that the current School Board members approved a measure that will cost the Oak Lawn Residents and Oak Lawn Business Owners, in some way or another through all sorts of taxes, an estimate $41,000,000 or more. It begs the question, “Why wasn’t this on the ballot?”

My name is not On the Ballot, but I need to be elected to serve On the Oak Lawn Community High School School Board District 229, and I am asking you to please

“Write-in Candidate”

Kenneth J. Yerkes … “People and Principles Over Money and Power"

April 1rst, 2025