HEARNE v. CHICAGO SCHOOL REFORM BD.

No. 1-99-1385.

749 N.E.2d 411 (2001)

322 Ill. App.3d 467

255 Ill.Dec. 310

Joseph HEARNE, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. CHICAGO SCHOOL REFORM BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR the CITY OF CHICAGO, Grey Chico, Norman R. Bobins, Tarig Butt, Sharon Gist Gilliam, Gene R. Stafford, Paul Vallas, Chief Executive Officer, and Illinois State Board of Education, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chicago Board of Education, Chicago (Marilyn F. Johnson, Nancy K. Laureto and Kelly A. Skalicky, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Appellee Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees of the Board of Education for the City of Chicago.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, and Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, Chicago (Michael P. Doyle, of counsel), for Defendant and Cross-Appellee Illinois State Board of Education.

Witwer, Poltrock & Giampietro, Chicago (Lawrence A. Poltrock, Gregory N. Freerksen and James B. Dykehouse, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant.


Justice FROSSARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees of the Board of Education for the City of Chicago (Board) appeals the circuit court's reversal of its decision to terminate plaintiff, Joseph Hearne, a tenured Chicago public school teacher. Plaintiff has filed a cross-appeal against the Board and the Illinois State Board of Education challenging the constitutionality of section 34-85 of the Illinois School Code...

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