Mayor Lori Lightfoot appoints former Ald. Michael Scott, two others to Chicago Board of Education

CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday appointed previous Ald. Michael Scott Jr. to the Chicago Board of Education and learning, small additional than a month after he still left the Chicago Metropolis Council for a occupation in the private sector.

Scott, who chaired the City Council Instruction Committee before he resigned in June, is a single of a few new Chicago Board of Education customers Lightfoot appointed on Friday.

The previous alderman stepped down from the City Council to choose a career as director of industry and community relations for Chicago film studio Cinespace. Lightfoot appointed his sister, Monique, to change him as alderwoman of the 24th Ward on the West Side.

Michael Scott Jr.’s posture as a university board member is unpaid, whilst board members are reimbursed for bills linked to their obligations.

“I am honored and humbled to acquire on this new purpose with the Board of Education and provide pupils, family members and employees of Chicago Community Educational facilities,” Scott Jr. mentioned in a statement. “This is an extraordinary prospect to build on my father’s legacy with CPS and the continued drive to strengthen and develop student possibilities, activities and results. I am eager to get began with the Board of Education”

Scott’s late father, Michael Sr., was president of the university board less than previous Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Scott Jr. reportedly will be using the position of university board member Dwayne Truss, whose phrase is expiring, and who opposed ideas to make a new $120 million superior college in the South Loop, on house owned by the Chicago Housing Authority, inspite of Lightfoot’s guidance for the task.

Lightfoot’s office environment did not quickly react to inquiries about whether or not Truss’ opposition to that task were being a aspect in not renewing his appointment to the university board.

The mayor also appointed legal professional Sulema Medrano Novak and previous CPS officer of university student help and engagement Paige Ponder to the faculty board.

Medrano Novak is a lover at the Chicago law firm Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and a latest member of the city’s Human Resource Board. She will resign from that board to acquire on her new role at the university board.

Ponder is the previous CEO of A person Million Degrees, an organization that supplies help for reduced-revenue folks who are the initially in their families to attend university. She formerly labored for the Chicago Board of Instruction as officer of university student help and engagement underneath former Mayor Richard M. Daley.