Delivering a stinging rebuke, the Chicago City Council voted 18-29 to reject Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s attempt to name an ally as chair of the City Council’s Education and Child Development Committee and bypass Ald. Sophia King, who is running for mayor.
Delivering a stinging rebuke, the Chicago City Council voted 18-29 on Wednesday to reject Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s attempt to name an ally as chair of the City Council’s Education and Child Development Committee and bypass Ald. Sophia King , who is running for mayor.The Education Committee has been without a leader since June, when former Ald. Michael Scott resigned to take a job with Cinespace, a television and movie studio on the West Side.
King, who represents Hyde Park and parts of downtown, the South Loop, Douglas, Kenwood, Oakland and Grand Boulevard, served as the Education Committee’s vice chair under Scott, and was set to become chair under the City Council’s rules.After the vote, King said she nevertheless has been acting as the committee chair and asked Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to testify regularly meet with the Education Committee.
In addition to the Education Committee, the City Council’s Ethics and Government Operations Committee has been without a leader since August, when former Ald. Michele Smith resigned.
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