Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced six new nominees for the school board while also blasting the status quo of not investing in education because it is too expensive.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, on Monday, compared the viewpoint of his critics who oppose school spending to that of the confederacy when it came to freeing slaves. 'When our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in this country, the argument was, ‘you can’t free Black people because it would be too expensive,’' Johnson said. 'They said it would be fiscally irresponsible for this country to liberate Black people.
’m a man of my word, and that means bold leadership in a moment that doesn’t nibble around the edges and look for incremental gain,' he said. 'Our people in this city are tired of political leaders that want the status quo to nibble around the edges, and then when children don’t get what they deserve, they blame the very communities that they’ve divested in. Not on my watch.' Johnson said the status quo and mistakes of the past that left students behind are not going to continue.
The mayor referred to his six new school board nominees as members, though he said they are still being vetted as a formality. Once the vetting is complete, Johnson’s nominees could remain on the board when it triples in size in January and changes to more of a hybrid model that includes 11 mayoral appointees and 10 elected members.
As a former Chicago Teachers Union organizer, Johnson has clashed with Martinez over the best way to close gaps in the district’s nearly $10 billion budget. Martinez has refused to resign from his post, saying the district needs stability. On Friday, all seven board members announced they would resign from their posts by the end of the month. Johnson handpicked all the outgoing members in 2023, just months after he took office. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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