Hankenson v. Board of Education

The plaintiffs, Homer Hankenson and Avis Young-berg, filed their complaint for administrative review in the Circuit Court of Lake county against the Board of Education of Waukegan Township High School District No. 119, Lake County, seeking reversal of the Board’s decision to terminate their employment as teachers of the district. Plaintiffs-appellants urged two grounds for relief; first, that they were denied the right of hearing under that article of the School Code commonly known as the Teacher Tenure Law (Ill. Rev. Stats., 1953, ch. 122, art. 24) and, secondly, that they were entitled to…