>> A push by older people to put Chicago Public Schools, CEO Pedro Martinez and board members on the hot seat fizzled today as turmoil is still swirling around CPS.

Some city council members demanded immediate action while others said today's Marathon meeting was a waste of time.

W t Tw News reporter Heather Sharon joins us now to break down today's along but not very eventful hearing.

Heather who showed up for today's meeting with the City Council's education committee.

Pretty much only CEO Pedro Martinez and his leadership team.

None of the former CPS board members showed up and none of the new CPS board members showed up.

>> Alderman a Jeannette Taylor, the chair of the Education Committee said the new board members told her they were not prepared to sort of field these questions from the City Council.

Now, this quite a result after all of the back and forth at last Wednesday's City Council meeting with alderman go gusts threatening to subpoena these board members.

And of course, the city's top lawyer saying hold on a minute there.

You don't have that authority.

>> That controversy appears to have ended not with a bang, but a whimper.

So did we learn anything new about the financial crisis that CPS is facing?

We did Pedro Martinez made the same pitch he made on our show last week that the city needs to use money set aside from property tax revenues to fight blight and fund redevelopment.

Instead to keep the school district out of the red.

Now we heard Mayor Brandon Johnson said, well, that would be great, but that's probably not going to be enough money, which is why he has urged the district to take out a short-term loan to sort of bridge the gap to what he says will be the full transformation of the school district.

But that's where we have for pretty much a month and we didn't get anywhere different today.

So all that said, what's next?

Well, the new CPS board supposed meet for the first time later this month at that meeting, they can take action and terminate.

Pedro Martinez says contract, which would usher in a whole new era for CPS.

But the controversy will remain as well as questions about how the district is structured financially.

There are many schools that are very underutilized with not very many students costing the district lots of money.

Now we learned a little bit today about that controversy where Pedro Martinez said it was important for him to have that sort of analysis, but that it's not worth it to the district would save much money and of course, create a massive controversy.

And of course, we know then there's that school board election coming up on November.

5th on Election Day.

Only at That thing.

Heather Sharon, thanks