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LEWIS E. v. SPAGNOLO

No. 83382.

710 N.E.2d 798 (1999)

186 Ill.2d 198

238 Ill.Dec. 1

LEWIS E. et al., Appellees, v. Joseph A. SPAGNOLO, Superintendent of Education, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

April 15, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Chief Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, for Joseph A. Spagnolo.

Pearson C.J. Bush, East St. Louis, for East St. Louis School District No. 189 & Geraldine Jenkins.

David E. Lieberman, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Susan Wishnick, The Roger Baldwin Found, of the ACLU, Inc., Chicago, Thomas E. Kennedy, Alton, for Lewis E.

William A. Morgan, Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Chicago, for Amicus Curiae, Board of Education of the City of Chicago.

Richard J. O'Brien, Jr., Sidley & Austin, Chicago, for Amicus Curiae, NAACP.

Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

In this appeal, this court is once again asked to enter the arena of Illinois public school policy. A class of schoolchildren residing in East St. Louis School District 189 challenges the adequacy of the education being provided to them in District 189 schools. We now reaffirm our recent holding in Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar, 174 Ill.2d 1,

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