Johnson v. Board of Ed. of City of Chicago

The plaintiffs, who are citizens, taxpayers and parents of children attending the public schools of Chicago, brought an action for declaratory judgment against the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, the individual members of the board and Benjamin C. Willis, challenging the latter’s reappointment as General Superintendent of Schools. The reappointment, approved in a regular session of the board on May 27, 1965, by a vote of seven to four, was for a four-year term commencing September 1,1965.

The plaintiffs contended that the decision of the board was void because it had been arranged…