Legal Opinion
Filar v. Board of Educ. of City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 22, 2008No. 07-1275PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Valerie T. Filar formerly taught as an untenured, full-time teacher in the Polish bilingual education department at the Edwin G. Foreman High School in Chicago. In 1999, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, then known as the Chicago School Reform Board, approved a decision by Foreman’s principal to change Filar’s status from a full-time teacher at Foreman to a substitute teacher who would fill vacancies in other Chicago public schools as they arose. Filar, who was 69 at the time, objected to the decision for at least two reasons. In the first place, she…
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