The move, late Friday night, came after Martinez, who is the first Latino CPS leader, refused to take out a $300 million loan, at the behest of the mayor, to pay for a new Chicago Teachers Union ...

KCRA asked.“I think it could have been,” said Misty’s husband, Shaun Runnels.KCRA 3 Investigates obtained records from Sacramento County Child Protective Services (CPS), showing a lengthy ...

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez leaves the school board meeting Friday night. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share The Board of Education voted unanimously to fire Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro ...

He will continue to serve as CPS CEO for the next 180 days on top of being given 20 weeks worth of severance pay. "If there's a silver lining, it's that educators, families and especially our ...

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"Mr. Martinez has acted consistently with his contract and the fiduciary duties he holds both to the Board and the children and families that CPS serves. Any actions to terminate or diminish his ...

A group of 18 teens enrolled in the Waukegan Youth Citizen Police Academy during their winter break learned a number of things about police work. When one showed disrespect to a classmate during a ...

I just saw my neighbor hooking up a Burley bike trailer to his dirt bike. There was an infant car seat in the back because his kid is only a month old and can't sit safely in the Burley yet on his ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The back-and-forth between outgoing Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez and Mayor Brandon Johnson will go to court this week. On Friday, the Chicago ...

Two Chicago police officers and a driver were hospitalized Thursday evening after a crash on the city’s Northwest Side.

Let’s stop playing games,” he said. Martinez said he respected the decision, but as a CPS graduate, denounced the criticism heaped upon him in recent months. “Who are they really talking to ...

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