>> There are fresh faces coming soon to Chicago's board of Education as Mayor Brandon Johnson today announces a new appointments.

It comes just days after the full board announced their plans to step down and the move happens amid a tumultuous time between Johnson and Chicago.

Public Schools, CEO Pedro Martinez, who says he rejected the mayor's request that he resign and the district is currently negotiating a contract with the Chicago Teachers Union.

Here is a bit from today's fiery news conference with reporters where the mayor announced his picks.

>> Now understand that there are individuals that was to use as a political opportunity to sow seeds of doubt.

But make no mistake about it, I'm going to stand firm left foot to ensure that our students get what they deserve.

>> The city council can have as many hearings as they want.

There's only one person who has the authority by state to make appointments that.

And that's the mayor of Chicago.

And that's me.

>> Here to break down a busy few days are W T Tw News reporters Matt Masterson and Heather Sharon.

Good to see you both.

Matt, what exactly did the mayor announced today that air I was a quick turnaround for him just after Friday, 3 days ago in the full board, the 7 members announced their resignations.

He announced the 6 new names today.

>> Initially the mayor said all 7 would be picked today, but this is going to be the first batch of his going forward.

He said there is a 7th that's going to be named later and then once the bet the board expands, there's going to be more names that come in January.

But these 6, they remain nominees for now.

Johnson still says they're under a vetting process.

They still need to be fully appointed by him in his office before they can actually take over.

By the end of this month.

The board meet on October 24th.

The plan is to have them all in place by then.

>> Heather, as we saw that clip, you know, the mayor at times appearing defiant, frustrated today during this press conference.

Certainly you've covered him quite extensively.

Why do you think that was?

I mean, who who is this frustration directed at?

Well, he was interrupted by 2 different groups of protesters.

One, you know, sort of marking the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel and calling for a cease-fire.

>> The other group called for Mayor Brandon Johnson to be fired because of his handling of the Chicago Public School district.

That is never an easy situation, especially when you're dealing with somewhat important questions, perhaps from the news media.

No one at least the mayor thought they were.

And the one I think that most seem to sort of frustrate him was about whether it was appropriate for him to now go to London to, you know, sort draw new businesses and go to the Bears game that there will be playing there.

Now, I think that was especially a touchy subject because the mayor has been accused of spending too much of his political capital in recent months to help the Bears get state funding in state subsidies to build a new stadium rather than focusing on what appears to be a very serious financial crisis for the Chicago Public Schools.

Yeah, one touchy issue on top of another.

at what we've been hearing from all the people since Friday's news that the board members intended to resign.

It was a bombshell announcement.

There's been plenty of concerns so far from both Johnsons, progressive allies and from his opponents, many of whom signed on to an open letter over the weekend calling for hearings on those resignations and more transparency from the mayor's office going forward.

>> They have expressed concerns about the district's instability about the wake of those destinations in Mayor Johnson's possible plan to take out the high interest, 300 million dollar loan to try and cover CPS costs.

>> There is currently a hearing on the books for later this week.

But as we heard from the mayor today, he's not very concerned with how that's going to affect his new board going forward, as he pointed out repeatedly, there is one person who can pick these Chicago school board members right It is him.

>> I mean, as you both mentioned, there is this major financial crunch facing the district and this pretty controversial plan to borrow.

There's also the issue of the relationship between Mayor Johnson and CEO Martinez mean Heather, do you think this seals Martinez's fate as the leader of the district will?

The board certainly has the authority to terminate Martinez's contracts and they can do it in one of 2 ways they can either say that they have caused to fire him and then Martinez, this dismissed immediately or they start.

What is the six-month transition to the next CEO now during that 6 months, Martinez would be paid to help whoever the new CEO of the district to sort of get under his or her feet.

It's not clear what the new board will do, but it's clear that even though Johnson and his allies sort of tried to depict the decision of old board to resign, they had so far sort not taking action against Martinez.

Even though Martinez said Johnson asked for his resignation.

And Matt, we mentioned this comes as the district is negotiating a new contract with the Chicago teachers union.

What if we heard from the CTU Union?

President States Navy get Davis.

Gates today said that he, too, is looking forward to working with this new board.

One of the members is a former C to Stafford.

>> But union leaders never really had many issues.

They were intending to stick with the previous board.

They got along.

Well, when they were appointed by Johnson last year in through their tenure, Davis congratulated them on their significant accomplishments during their tenure.

She thanked them for their work.

But as you point out, there are contract negotiations going on.

So much of a response to was pointed at Co Martinez about the issues that he needs to get accomplished to get a deal done about class sizes, staff shortages and the revenue that he's going to need to get this over the goal line contract.

>> And you mentioned, you know, the hope is to have these folks in place by the upcoming board meeting.

Do we know anything about the timeline for finding out who that 7th name is coming to?

Johnson didn't give much on who the other person could be.

If it would be somebody who stays on it doesn't seem like that's going to be the case or another person.

He said plenty of people are interested in this position.

Once the board expands after next month's elections, there will be 21 members.

He's going to pick 11 of those.

So he's going to have another batch of names.

He says he's going to release sometime this month will get the 7th he says they'll all be vetted.

Those 7 before this month's Board of Education meeting.

All right.

Well, much more to come in the coming weeks and months.

I'm sure Matt Masterson, Heather surround, thank you both very much.

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