“who has refused to support the issuance of a $300M high-interest payday loan to fund CTU’s contract demands”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked board of education has added the termination of Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to their Friday meeting agenda.
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and Vice President Jackson Potter have been lobbying Johnson for months to pressure the board to fire Martinez, who has refused to support the issuance of a $300M high-interest payday loan to fund CTU’s contract demands.
This pressure led to the ousting of the entire seven-member school board in October. Johnson then appointed an entirely new board, with no oversight. The new board president then resigned when 40 aldermen called for him to step down after social media posts came to light wherein he supported 9/11 conspiracy theories and anti-semitism.
Johnson and the CTU are hoping for all of this to rushed through before newly elected members of the school board take office on Jan. 15.
