The City Council’s Education Committee rejected an effort by Ald. Sophia King to force CPS CEO Pedro Martinez to field questions from members of the City Council four times a year — or face the loss of the city’s financial support.
The City Council’s Education Committee rejected an effort by mayoral candidate Ald. Sophia King to force Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to field questions from members of the City Council four times a year — or face the loss of the city’s financial support.The committee, meeting for the first time since May and for only the second time this year, split 7-7 over King’s proposal — one vote short of advancing it to the full City Council for consideration.
A majority of the members of the committee urged Martinez to regularly field their questions about the direction of the nation’s fourth largest school district, saying King’s proposal was reasonable and would help Chicagoans hold the leaders of the Chicago Public Schools accountable. Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza , a member of the Chicago Teachers Union who has been harshly critical of leaders of the Chicago Public Schools, said she could not take the risk that school projects would stop in her Southeast Side ward — even as she acknowledged that the only leverage the City Council had was its financial power.
An effort by King to assuage those concerns by revising the measure to make it clear any financial penalties would be imposed at least three months after the school district leadership snubbed the City Council failed.
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