Board of Education v. State Board of Education

Plaintiff, Board of Education of the City of Chicago, instituted dismissal proceedings against defendant Barry Isaac, a tenured elementary school teacher. A hearing officer appointed by defendant State Board of Education found that the evidence presented by plaintiff failed to support the charges and ordered that Isaac be reinstated. Plaintiff instituted proceedings in the trial court under the Administrative Review Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110, par. 264 et seq.) The trial court found that the decision of the hearing officer was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.…