McCullough v. Illinois State Board of Education

Plaintiff, William J. McCullough, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Lawrence County which upheld, on administrative review, his dismissal as a tenured public school teacher for the Lawrence-ville Unit School District No. 20. Plaintiff raises three issues for our review: (1) whether plaintiff’s conviction for failure to file Federal income tax returns, together with his post-indictment conduct, constituted cause for dismissal under the Illinois School Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 122, par. 1 — 1 et seq.), (2) whether certain factual findings made by the hearing officer were…