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PARENTS UNITED v. BOARD OF EDUC.

No. 1-10-2901.

956 N.E.2d 10 (2011)

353 Ill. Dec. 490

PARENTS UNITED FOR RESPONSIBLE EDUCATION, South Side United LSC Foundation, Steven Ross, Valencia Rias, and Jessica Benuzzi, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee (Mose Vines Academy Local School Council, School of Technology Local School Council, School of Entrepreneurship Local School Council, Chicago Westside Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Reverend Charles Walker, LaJoyce Hall, Larissa Bilous, and Darryl Gibson, Plaintiffs.).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

July 26, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elaine K.B. Siegel , Elaine K.B. Siegel & Assocs., P.C., Chicago, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Patrick J. Rocks , William A. Morgan , Cynthia B. Harris , Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Chicago, for Defendant-Appellee.

OPINION

Justice CONNORS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 In this case of first impression, the issue is whether defendant Board of Education of the City of Chicago may designate a school in the city of Chicago a "small school," or close the school and open an alternative school in its place, without holding local school council (LSC) elections and ceding governing authority over the school to that LSC. The circuit

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