The Chicago Board of Education has called a meeting this Friday night—at which members have been asked to agree on a buyout and termination for Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Pedro Martinez.

Many are denouncing the planned agenda. When it comes in particular to the incoming class of school board members—the first ever elected by voters—they say any intention to oust Martinez before they start undercuts the role they were elected to fill.

Chicago is losing the quarterback of its response to the migrant crisis at a time when the incoming Trump administration has threatened to make Chicago ground zero for mass deportations.

Brandie Knazze is stepping down as commissioner of the city’s Department of Family and Support Services, effective Dec. 31. After four years in the pressure cooker job, she is moving to the lower-stress nonprofit world, although she refused to say where.

For more than three decades, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has been in charge of the Electronic Monitoring Program (EM), which was put in place to prevent jail overcrowding. But over the years, the scope and rules of the program have changed and now Sheriff Tom Dart says he is done with it.

The EM program started in 1989 and was used primarily for non-violent offenders.

After two recent fires at a homeless encampment in Elgin, the city council unanimously agreed on Wednesday to move people living there to a hotel for the winter.

Residents of “Tent City,” a roughly 8-acre area on the west bank of the Fox River, will be offered rooms at the Lexington Inn & Suites for four months, and the site will be cleared and remediated.

Both the Unit 5 and District 87 school boards unanimously voted on Wednesday to put the County School Facilities Sales Tax referendum on the April ballot.

If approved in next year’s consolidated election, the revenue collected by the tax would be divided among public schools in the county based on student population.