Peters v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF RANTOUL TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DIST.

In April 1981 the plaintiff, Janet M. Peters, a tenured high school English teacher, received notice from the defendant board of education of Rantoul Township High School District No. 193 of her honorable dismissal effective at the conclusion of the 1980-81 school year. The dismissal was stated to be, in the language of section 24 — 12 of the School Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 122, par. 24 — 12), because of the discontinuance of the “particular type of teaching service” in which the plaintiff was engaged. On July 28, 1981, she filed a complaint in the circuit court of Champaign County for…