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CHICAGO (WLS) — One item on hand for Friday’s special Chicago Board of Education meeting is a vote on a plan that would keep seven Acero charter schools slated for closure open through next year.
The decision will come on the same day as a vote that could decide the future of CPS CEO Pedro Martinez.
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The school board is expected to fire Martinez. If members vote to terminate with cause, they could individually face legal action. If they fire without cause, it is written in Martinez’s contract that he stays on for 6 months and receives 20 weeks of severance.
His ouster and the timing of it is being highly criticized.
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