Four of Seven Marshall School Board Seats on April 2027 Ballot

Marshall C.U.S.D. C-2 Board of Education | September 10, 2026

Article Summary: Superintendent Ross briefed the Marshall C.U.S.D. C-2 board on Sept. 10, 2026, on the April 6, 2027, school board election. Four of the seven seats are up, and two of the four incumbents have indicated they do not intend to run again.

Board Election Key Points:

• Seats held by Macke, Hendrix, Lycan and Maurer are on the April 6, 2027, ballot.
• Macke and Hendrix have indicated their intent not to run again.
• Candidates could begin circulating petitions Aug. 25, 2026; filing with the County Clerk opens Nov. 16, 2026 and closes Nov. 23, 2026.
• Ross will post election information on the school district website.

MARSHALL — A majority of the Marshall C.U.S.D. C-2 Board of Education will be on the ballot next spring, and at least two of those seats will be open contests.

Superintendent Ross laid out the calendar for the April 6, 2027, Board of Education election at the board’s regular meeting on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. Candidates could begin circulating nominating petitions on Aug. 25, 2026 — a date that had already passed when the board met — and can begin filing those petitions with the County Clerk on Nov. 16, 2026, with a filing deadline of Nov. 23, 2026.

The seats held by board members Macke, Hendrix, Lycan and Maurer are all up for election, Ross told the board. That is four of the board’s seven seats.

Two of those four incumbents will not be seeking another term. Macke and Hendrix have indicated their intent not to run again, according to the record of the meeting. Macke presided over the Sept. 10 meeting, calling it to order at 6 p.m. and opening the district’s fiscal year 2027 budget hearing. Hendrix moved the budget’s adoption and also sits, with Crews, on the board’s Bills Committee, which met at 5:45 p.m. before the regular session.

Neither Lycan nor Maurer is recorded as having stated an intention one way or the other.

Ross said he would post information regarding the election on the school website. The record of the meeting does not say whether the district will publish petition packets, a candidate guide or filing instructions there, nor does it state the number of signatures required on a petition or where at the county the petitions are filed beyond the County Clerk’s office.

The discussion was listed under New Business and was informational. No motion was made and no vote was taken.

Context

Illinois school board seats are generally filled at the consolidated election held in odd-numbered years in April, which places the Marshall vote on the same ballot as a long list of municipal, township, library and park district offices across the state. The turnover facing Marshall is therefore not unusual in its timing — but the arithmetic is worth noting locally: with four of seven seats on the ballot and two incumbents stepping aside, the composition of the board that will decide the district’s facilities questions, including whether to put a 1% county school facility sales tax before voters, could look substantially different by May 2027.

The board indicated at the same meeting that it will return to the sales tax question in December, before the November filing window has produced a candidate field but in the same season.