When newly elected Mayor Lori Lightfoot named seven people in 2019 to oversee the Chicago Public Schools, she said her Chicago Board of Education would be very different from past boards.
It would be an independent body composed of people with deep roots in the school system — educators, CPS parents, school activists, not the bankers and corporate lawyers past mayors had appointed, and the work it would do to reach its decisions largely would “have to be in public.”
