A Cook County decide has rescheduled Thursday’s listening to into Chicago Public Schools Chief Pedro Martinez’s alleged obstruction of his job duties.
On December 24, Judge Joel Chupack granted Martinez’s request for a brief restraining order to forestall members of the Board of Education from collaborating in contract negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union with out his approval; or block him from “finishing up his work duties”.
Martinez’s representatives and the varsity board agreed to postpone the listening to as a result of the positions taken by former board members are sophisticated by the Jan. 15 assembly that can function 10 newly elected members and 11 members appointed by the mayor, William J. Quinlan, member Martinez’s lawyer mentioned.
The listening to scheduled for Thursday at 3.15pm has been moved to 10.30am on January 21.
“All events agreed that it was sensible to postpone the standing listening to earlier than the courtroom till the brand new college board was sworn in,” Quinlan mentioned in an announcement.
Chupack’s Christmas Eve ruling was a victory for the CEO after months of backwards and forwards over his potential firing. Martinez’s contract was in the end terminated with out trigger on Dec. 20 by college board members appointed by the mayor. Although he was fired, he nonetheless has 180 days as principal of the appearing college.
The uninteresting stretch of Martinez’s tenure has left some unanswered questions on how his ongoing duties would possibly change or whether or not the varsity board would rent a co-CEO alongside him.
Days after the firing, three board members participated in a high-stakes contract negotiation session between CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union. The academics’ contract expired in June and negotiations have been ongoing since April.
“(The recommendation) did not even go to my staff. They went on to CTU and in addition went to outline the technique,” Martinez advised Chupack in December. “They really feel empowered. …They have the mayor and the council. And so that they inform my staff to agree.”
Last September, the mayor requested Martinez to resign over his refusal to take out a $300 million high-interest mortgage to cowl the prices of a proposed new contract for academics and pension funds for college employees not instructor.
More than $300 million in more money from town’s tax increment financing, or TIF, surplus funds will assist cowl a few of these prices, however there’s nonetheless a gap within the district’s 2025 price range, officers say monetary analysts.
nsalzman@chicagotribune.com
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