The Chicago Board of Education has voted unanimously to fire Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez.
The 6-0 vote came after an hours-long special meeting held Friday night.Martinez is being fired without cause and will be paid for the next six months in addition to a lump sum payment. Board members said his duties would also be modified. After a decision was made, FOX 32's Paris Schutz asked school board member Frank Thomas why he voted to terminate the CPS CEO, but received no response. None of the other board members offered comments either.
In September, Mayor Johnson asked Martinez to step down, citing concerns about contract negotiations with the CTU and CPS’s financial challenges. Martinez rejected the request, arguing that stepping down would create a leadership vacuum that could disrupt CPS’s progress.Tensions escalated in October when all seven members of the CPS Board of Education, appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, resigned following pressure from Johnson and the CTU to remove Martinez.
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