Bagley v. Board of Education of Seneca Community Consolidated School District No. 170

This case involves an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of La Salle County in favor of the plaintiff school teachers, awarding them the benefit of salary increases passed by the defendant school board for the 1975-1976 academic year. For the reasons stated hereafter, we affirm.

The facts of this case are quite simple. In the spring of 1975, the defendant, the board of education of Seneca Community Consolidated School District No. 170, held a meeting and voted to increase the base salary of tenured teachers from $8,500 to $9,000 for the upcoming school year. Subsequently, individual…