Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez is fighting his recent firing by the CPS School Board, with his lawyers demanding the board cease negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union.
Attorneys for Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez are expected in court Tuesday morning, for a hearing to fight his recent firing by the CPS School Board. Martinez's legal team also filed a cease and desist order against the board, arguing they're unlawfully interfering by negotiating a new contract with the teachers' union. A spokesperson for the CTU told ABC7 that for the first time this cycle, CPS board members were at contract negotiations after those same board members.
'One argument he did make in the papers he's already filed is that the board was not properly constituted. These members didn't receive, he says, the proper training. They weren't vetted properly, is what he alleged,' ABC7 Chief Legal Analyst Gil Soffer said. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to the school board, Martinez's lawyers called for the board members' actions at the bargaining table to stop, saying their attempts, in part, 'unlawfully infringe on and interfere with Mr. Martinez's authority, as CEO, to act as the sole representative of the Board in these negotiations.' 'He may certainly raise this point - the subject of the cease and desist as evidence of the backdrop of what's been happening to him,' Soffer said. 'The only question, tomorrow, really for the judge to consider... it's whether he is entitled to a temporary restraining order to undue the dismissal.' This legal battle is coming to a head after Martinez refused to take out a loan, at the behest of Mayor Brandon Johnson, to pay for a Chicago Teachers Union contract.
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