>> The pressure on the Chicago Public Schools leader grows.

Meanwhile, the city says it expects to spend less on migrants then in originally thought in the once powerful Alderman Ed Burke is now a federal inmate here with all that and more is our spotlight.

Politics team Amanda have our Sharon and Nick Blumberg >> actually, right have we caught our breath?

Because this afternoon, the drama at CPS has been escalating.

Statements and op-eds are just flying left and right Sunday, when are the teachers union announced that it took a vote of no confidence on CPS.

Ceo Pedro Martinez at its House of Delegates meeting last week.

talk to Stacy Davis, Gates from the sea to you about it last night.

Heather, what is the latest?

Well, we learned officially today that Mayor Brandon Johnson did ask CPS CEO Pedro Martinez to resign.

Martinez declined.

He said in Tribune op-ed you referenced that he did so.

>> Out of the best interests of Chicago students saying that it would be disruptive to change CEOs at this point.

Of course, we're in the middle of CTU.

Contract Negotiations District just approved a new five-year strategic plan.

It was a stunning public.

Just defiance of the mayor and really now it means it hit the ball is in the court of the Chicago Board of Education, which all of those members were appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, who now have the authority to terminate Martinez.

Now, if they do and they do so for cars, Martinez would be dismissed immediately.

But it's they say there's no cause he will be paid for the next 6 months to oversee a transition to the next CPS CEO.

However, this is a lot of chaos in a district that not only needs a new contract with its teachers, but is also facing a 700 million dollar deficit next year and also has so far refused to pay 175 million dollars in 2 its pension funds, which of course, I think part of what precipitated this crisis along with a raging debate over whether they should close schools that are under And let's add to that instability, perhaps with changing CEO, but also a new school board coming in because only half of the members going forward after the election are starting the new Year anyway will be appointed by the mayor and the other half are going to be elected and could have very different viewpoints from the Mayor.

>> Johnson will still have control because the citywide president of the school board will be still his appointee until another couple of years.

But there's just a lot of turmoil, which is one of the reasons that CEO Martinez says he should keep his job, that it too much that you've already had 7 CEOs in the past decade and that that is not good for the school system and its students, particularly as you have a new vision that was unanimously supported by a school board that he helped to draft in the was interesting, too, to see that statement from the Chicago Board of Education talking about this list of potential CO locations, school closures.

>> That we heard Stacy Davis Gates talking about that other folks have raised clearly this seems to be, you know, from all the reporting, a huge part of what contributed to souring the relationship between Mayor Johnson and CEO Martinez, the board coming out with a very strong declaration there that this was something we were discussing in closed session.

We have a responsibility to look into all the options.

It doesn't mean we're going to pursue You know, I think there's maybe some questions about was this something they were trying to do on the slide because school closures are such a 3rd rail in Chicago, understandably, but it's going to be very interesting to see whether there is any way to mend that relationship.

And while the board, you know, has come out and said this has been, you know, misinformation, this is what's going on.

Will the mayor sway his appointees ultimately lead to, you know, asked Martinez and I think their questions, Nick, is it that this list of school closures something that was If you noted that Ford was earnestly doing and meant to keep in close confidence.

>> And that anybody in Chicago politics knows and recognizes that that is part of its duty.

Its fiduciary responsibilities.

And is it being as a political wedge?

Because very much already been hard feelings prior to this coming out between the Chicago teachers union and the 5th floor of City Hall.

So I think one could question.

>> They think that Pedro Martinez in the border trying to close schools, particularly now that they've got a moratorium on Thursday's agenda.

>> Or is this another way that can be used to sort rile up the membership alum its measles?

It's a very interesting dynamic as well.

There used to be a time when it was very clearly CPS.

The board and the mayor on one side and CTU on the other side.

And is a very different dynamic.

Now.

We know that CTU Mayor Brandon Johnson are typically aligned Stacy Davis Gates last night said that the board is as well and that it is Pedro Martinez, who's not on the same page with everyone else.

But I'm not sure that's the case based on the statement that we got today from the board saying that, no, we are not closing schools and we are not taking a picture Martinez's contract any time And add to that.

The fact that, you know, we do have the school board elections coming up in which the CTU is understandably very heavily involved.

So that adds another.

>> Layer on top of it some of the political complexity of having this first round of elections where they have candidates who they would like to see, you know, take their place on the board.

it's just one more complication in an already really, really complicated about because here's a little bit of what union leader Stacey Davis.

Gates told me yesterday about Pedro Martinez on Chicago tonight.

>> Pedro Martinez has to do 2 things.

He has to get in line with his board of education with his boss, the mayor and with the workers who make the district and he needs to create a vision and a plan for how we win the revenue in the funding to offer students with a desired offering them cuts only is not the vision we have for this district and our union will not go backwards.

>> So I guess my question is, who is this most damaging for how it all shakes Really?

I mean, Pedro Martinez, of course, if he loses his job, he says that it is one that wants to keep what it beat the taxpayers that are at a loss if in fact, he ends up getting paid for half of the year that maybe he's not all tight budget time again.

Here is it the mayor.

If the school board members that he appointed don't go along with him and that is seen and Islam are little exactly.

I mean, so I really think that that's hard to answer at this point.

And you're really seeing.

>> So many people come to the for.

They're speaking out the it's driving a further wedge potentially between black elected officials and Latino elected officials.

You've had a coalition of Latino leaders in Chicago saying, hey, wait.

And meanwhile, if talk to Martinez, families, parents of students at home going the way what what's happening.

And I think I think a lot of folks and say they're probably the biggest loser in all this, which is unfortunate because the district is here for the students.

>> In all sites would say we're fighting for those very students.

So that would be Let's let's hope that is the case, So Heather, after convincing City Council to air market was at 70 million dollars.

Thank you I've my daycare 5 months ago, city officials saying I need that money after How much are we talking about 70 Million?

So that was a huge bite in April.

Speaking of big fights that was politically damaging to the mayor.

He had to ask Black Alder people once again dig into the city's pockets and care for these new a Chicago into the time where they see black communities from just under decades disinvestment and with mostly because of the changes made by President Joe Biden at the border, means that that money was never really needed at all.

And in fact, the city included 150 million dollars in the city's 2024 budget.

The city expects to spend only 141 million dollars of that money.

In part because the state and the county in the federal government kicked in some extra cash, but also nowhere near the surge that everybody was expected to be timed with.

The Democratic National Convention arrived, which means that that was political capital expended for no good reason.

But money saved going otherwise.

course, mean, think this was not necessarily a waste of political capital in the sense that had things gone differently.

Had you seen a surge in Chicago was ill prepared for it?

That would have been true trouble for the city for the migrants.

All yours for 1000, there was choice but it's appropriate that money.

But in retrospect, you sure would like to avoid having that fight.

That happened in council.

Every click because we only got 30 work.

Yeah, well, is one of the newest federal inmates.

You know, I think a lot of folks see this.

As you know, there are people that made a real push saying he should not be getting anywhere near the 10 years that prosecutors wanted.

We saw that avalanche of support from an array of folks.

>> Whether or not that had a significant impact on the judge's sentencing.

He sentenced to 2 years.

He'll serve about 20 months.

It's it is a pretty stunning downfall for the onetime head man in charge the city Council.

right.

We're going to leave it