The previous board stepped down amid a dispute between the mayor and Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez over the school district’s budget gaps, according to WBEZ Chicago. The new school ...

The recently appointed head of Chicago’s school board resigned Thursday after reports from the Jewish Insider and Chicago Sun-Times exposed what some Chicago leaders called antisemitic and ...

Chicago school board president steps down over antisemitic, misogynistic remarks 03:07. A letter signed by 40 of the city's 50 aldermen, and City Clerk Anna Valencia, also had urged Mayor Johnson ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board president resigned Thursday after coming under fire from critics, including Gov. JB Pritzker and the mayor, for social media posts deemed ...

A week after he was sworn into office, the president of the Board of Education in Chicago resigned on Thursday over social media posts from the past year that elected officials criticized as anti ...

Chicago School Board President Resigns After ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Social Media Posts Surface. Mayor Brandon Johnson called Rev. Mitchell Johnson’s post sexist, antisemitic, and conspiratorial.

The posts came to light this week, with 40 members of the Chicago City Council and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker among those calling for the board president to step down.

Mayor Brandon Johnson, no relation to the Rev. Mitchell Johnson, appointed a new board on Oct. 7, saying he was working to make Chicago's Public School Board more stable after the entire school board ...

Chicago School Board President Resigns Following Backlash Over Antisemitic Facebook Posts The president’s resignation comes at the recommendation of the mayor, who, on Thursday, announced that he had ...

The recently appointed president of Chicago's school board resigned Thursday after media outlets uncovered multiple controversial social media posts that state and local leaders called sexist ...