Mayor Johnson has days to find $175M as he lacks votes for CPS pension payment to city
Seven of 20 school board members say they oppose reimbursing the city for the payment. The mayor has until March 31 to settle ...
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Mayor Johnson lacks the votes to compel CPS to make city pension payment, giving him days to find the cash
Seven of 20 school board members say they oppose reimbursing the city for the payment, leaving the mayor without enough yes ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says there is no reason for a teachers' strike to happen
The mayor met Wednesday with CPS Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez, Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates, ...
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Pedro Martinez on Alex Bregman: ‘He wants to be great’
Pedro Martinez knows, because he was on such a squad himself. The 2004 Red Sox were a team powered by intangibles. They were loaded with talent, of course, but there was so much more to it than that.
Chicago Teachers Union joins forces with city’s firefighters to secure labor contracts
The Chicago Teachers Union said on Friday that it’s joining forces with Fire Fighters Local Union 2 to push for a deal on ...
Tense City Hall meeting on CTU contract, CPS budget vote ends with ‘handful of issues’ still unresolved
Mayor Brandon Johnson gathered CPS and CTU leaders ahead of a critical vote to amend the school district’s budget to pay for ...
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson tries to broker compromise on teachers union contract
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden called the meeting productive, while CTU ...
Johnson summons stakeholders to City Hall to talk teachers contract, pension payments
Mayor Brandon Johnson is meeting with leaders of the Chicago Public School ahead of a Board of Education meeting. Johnson ...
CPS, Chicago Teachers Union say contract deal close, but not yet reached
Negotiations continued in earnest Friday to reach a compromise on a new contract for the Chicago Teachers Union, with CTU's ...
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‘No ceiling for this team’: Pedro Martinez sees a changed Red Sox team
FORT MYERS, Fla. — As he stood in the sunshine at JetBlue Park on Tuesday, Pedro Martinez couldn’t get over how much has changed. Hours earlier, he’d bumped into D’Angelo Ortiz outside the ...
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Johnson blames CPS leadership in $175 million pension dispute as school board vote looms
The Board of Education will vote on a budget amendment Thursday, but it's still unknown if it will send $175 million to the ...
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Aldermen petition CPS CEO to make $175M pension payment, or risk unbalanced city budget
More than two dozen City Council members have signed on to a letter to schools CEO Pedro Martinez demanding that CPS make the payment. Aldermen say if the city does not get that $175 million by ...