Mayor Brandon Johnson announces six new CPS board members after mass resignations
Johnson bristled when asked if he was moving to replace the entire school board so the new board could fire Chicago Public ...
Alders say Mayor Johnson is acting like a "dictator" with his decisions regarding CPS board
Members of the City Council said they want a voice at the table, but Mayor Johnson said he alone has the authority on these ...
Johnson names new CPS Board after resignations
Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed six new members to the Chicago Board of Education on Monday following an uproar over the ...
Mayor Johnson deflects criticism on school board resignations, argues he’s preventing CPS budget cuts
This is about investing in our children and not accepting cuts,” Johnson said in an exclusive interview. “For too long in ...
Opinion: CPS board has a moral obligation to work with police to reduce youth crime
The CPS board may not have appreciated the unexpected request by the police chief, but it should not diminish the great need ...
With the entire Board of Education to resign, what’s next for CPS families?
The mass resignation of the 7-member Chicago Board of Education may be only the first in a series of upheavals in Chicago ...
District 2 school board candidates gather to CPS’ pressing issues
Candidates for the Chicago Board of Education’s District 2 want to change what they called the board’s history of not ...
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Here’s what the Chicago City Council can (and mostly can’t) do to limit the mayor’s power over the CPS Board
It came after months of acrimony over who – whether the city of CPS — should pay for CPS non-teacher pensions, and Johnson’s ...
Hugo Jacobo: We stopped the ouster of the CPS CEO. Let’s bring independence to the school board.
If the CTU-backed school board candidates are successful, they will owe their political fortunes to Stacy Davis Gates, much ...
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Brandon Johnson scrambles to contain CPS school board turmoil, picks 6 new members
After all members of the Chicago Board of Education announced their resignations last week, Mayor Brandon Johnson named six ...
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Many alders not happy with Mayor Johnson's handling of CPS board
Johnson—who himself once worked for the Chicago Teachers Union—made his picks to replace the board. As Political Reporter Chris Tye reports, 41 out of 50 members of the Chicago City council do not ...