Bob Spatz

A longtime Oak Park resident, Bob has been an advocate for education and equity for nearly 30 years. He has served on two non-profit boards: Project Unity and the Oak Park Education Foundation. He helped establish the Collaboration for Early Childhood and served on the board for several years. Bob has spent nearly three decades volunteering for Oak Park School District 97 including three terms as an elected board member where he served as both vice president and president. He has also been involved in regional and state education issues as an active member of the Illinois Early Learning Council’s Data Research and Evaluation Sub-Committee, the executive board of the West Cook Division of the Illinois Association of School Boards, and the executive board of ED-RED, a suburban school advocacy organization. In 2019, he helped form the OPRF Youth Ultimate (Frisbee) Organization. Professionally, Bob has worked for 38 years in various IT and data analysis positions at the Center for Research in Security Prices, an affiliate of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and currently does part-time consulting in the areas of early childhood and K-12 public policy and funding. He has a BA in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois in Champaign.