Lenard v. Board of Education of Fairfield School District No. 112

This is an appeal by the respondent, Board of Education of Fairfield School District No. 112 (Board), from an order of the circuit court of Wayne County granting Kenneth L. Lenard’s petition for a writ of mandamus and restoring him to his teaching position for the 1974-1975 school year.

Petitioner Lenard taught in Wayne County schools for eight years, commencing with the 1966-1967 school year, and had acquired tenure, referred to in the School Code as “contractual continued service” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 122, par. 24 — 11). In March of the school year 1973-1974, he received a letter from…