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Education Desk

Interview: Springfield School Board Member, Scott McFarland

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Rachel Otwell

Published June 13, 2013 at 9:17 AM CDT

WUIS has brought you interviews with all the new Springfield school board members seated last month. Today we speak with Scott McFarland – he’s serving his second term on the board. McFarland recently saw the closures of multiple schools in his district on the north-east side of town. He tells WUIS about that as well as problems within the previous school board: