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Former board member DwayneTruss called for the inspector general of the Chicago Public Schools to probe the deal that would allow the high school to be built at 24th and State streets, once home to the demolished CHA Harold L. Ickes homes.
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The plan is contingent on the school system receiving approval from the Board of Education for its $70 million share of the new high school.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office also announced that Sulema Medrano Novak and Paige Ponder would join the school board after the departures of Luisiana Meléndez and Lucino Sotelo.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has tapped former alderperson Michael Scott Jr. as a new member of the Chicago Board of Education, barely a month after the former Committee on Education and Child Development chair stepped down from the City Council.