While ABC7 has confirmed the effort, which includes a push from the Chicago Teachers Union in part due to an apparent unwillingness by Martinez to support high interest loans to pay for teacher raises, Mayor Johnson would not speak to the situation Thursday.
ByMayor Brandon Johnson's administration is attempting to force Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez out of his role, sources told ABC7.Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to push out Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, sources told ABC7.
A day after information emerged of Mayor Johnson's administration trying to force out the CPS CEO, both men appeared at the opening of the Rainbow PUSH Convention. "As you know, I don't discuss personnel issues or personnel matters publicly. I don't find that to be productive," Johnson said.Ald. Matt O'Shea said Martinez has made improvements for schools in his ward, especially for students with special needs.
The principal of Saucedo Elementary, Virginia Hiltz, said she was also surprised to hear about such efforts to remove Martinez. She is concerned about how changes in leadership could impact her students.'My concern is the school-based rules that he's brought here, the interventionists, lead coaches... real things making real differences in the education of kids are going to be lost quickly," Hiltz said.
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