Counterclockwise: Chicago Public Schools General Counsel Joseph Moriarty, Interim Chief Operating Officer Lindy McGuire, Interim Chief Education Officer Maurice Swinney and Interim Chief Executive Officer José Torres attend the Chicago Board of Education’s first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began at the Chicago Public Schools headquarters in the Loop, Wednesday morning, July 28, 2021. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Chicago Public Schools officials defended their recommendation on Wednesday to keep Aramark’s custodial services, acknowledging the cleaning company’s history of problems with filthy schools but giving assurances that new ways of tracking cleaning complaints in-house will yield better results than in the past.