Beck v. Board of Education of Harlem Consolidated School District No. 122

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, which found that fees charged a parent for school supplies and materials furnished his children were not authorized by statute, which found that some of the items furnished were textbook materials which had to be given his children without charge because a free textbook proposal had been adopted by referendum, and which enjoined collection of the fees from him.

The plaintiff in this case, William H. Beck, is the father of four children who attend school in Harlem Consolidated School District No. 122, in…