Chicago School Board president resigns for antisemitic posts. [View all]
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board president resigned Thursday after coming under fire for social media posts critics including Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the mayor deemed antisemitic, misogynistic and conspiratorial.
The mayor’s announcement Thursday afternoon came about two hours after Gov. JB Pritzker called on the Rev. Johnson to step down from his post. Pritzker was openly critical this week about how City Hall vetted Johnson for the schools job in light of the Facebook posts, which surfaced after he took his post.
“Any person charged with the stewardship of the Chicago Public School Board must exemplify focused, inclusive, and steady leadership,” Pritzker said in a statement Thursday. “The views expressed in the current Chair’s posts – antisemitism, misogyny, fringe conspiracy theories – very clearly do not meet that standard.
The Rev. Johnson was appointed by him to the school board’s top leadership role after all seven previous members resigned earlier this month. A few state legislators and City Council members questioned that decision and called for his resignation because of dozens of anti-Israel posts he’d made, which were first reported by Jewish Insider.
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