PILDITCH v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF CITY OF CHICAGO

Nos. 92-3932, 92-4050.

3 F.3d 1113 (1993)

Walter E. PILDITCH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHICAGO, a Body Corporate and Politic; Fitz Barclay, Jr., Marty Gool, Esther Morgan-Watts, Calvin L. Pearce, and Willia Robinson, as Members of the Morgan Park High School Local School Council; Grady C. Jordan, as District Superintendent, High School District 11, Chicago Board of Education, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1993.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied September 21, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Berghoff (argued), Christopher J. Berghoff, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

Ronald S. Samuels (argued), Samuels & Associates, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellants.

Iris E. Sholder, Karen Gatsis Anderson, Miguel A. Rodriguez, City of Chicago Bd. of Educ., Chicago, IL, for Grady C. Jordan in No. 92-4050.

Before CUMMINGS, POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing In Banc Denied September 21, 1993.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

In an effort to give parents and local citizens more control over the public school system, the Illinois Legislature in 1989 passed an education reform measure that created local councils in each school district and invested them with the power to hire and fire principals. 105 ILCS 5/34-2.2. Principals accustomed to job security were stripped of

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