Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on Sept. 18, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A supermajority of the City Council called for hearings after last week's news that the entire Chicago Board of Education will step down this month after weeks of tumult over the future of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Pedro Martinez, who said he was asked by Mayor Brandon Johnson to resign over disagreements about the school district’s finances. At least 41 of the 50 members of the City Council signed on to a letter that says the news was "unprecedented and brings further instability to our school district."