GRAHAM v. BD. OF EDUC.

No. 19-2745.

8 F.4th 625 (2021)

Tamika GRAHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION of the City of Chicago and Health Care Service Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 10, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tamika Graham, Chicago, IL, Pro Se.

Elizabeth K. Barton , Thomas Arthur Doyle , Attorneys, Chicago Board of Education, Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Board of Education of the City of Chicago.

Jill Vorobiev , Adam J. Weiner, I , Attorneys, Reed Smith LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Health Care Service Corporation.

Lisa Schiavo Blatt , Sarah M. Harris , Attorneys, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae JAmes Matthew Rice.

Before Easterbrook, Rovner, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


Chicago offers public-school teachers higher pay if they earn extra college credits. Tamika Graham sought a higher salary under this program in July 2015, only to have her application ignored. She tried again in September, and this time she was not ignored. Instead she was fired on the ground that her application had...

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