Fennerty v. Board of Education

ORDER

Janet Fennerty, along with dozens of other Chicago public school teachers, was laid off in June 2011. She filed a lawsuit claiming that the Board of Education violated her right to procedural due process when it laid her off without first allowing her “to demonstrate that she is qualified to fill a vacant position in preference to new hires.” As a tenured teacher, she alleged, she was entitled to “continue her employment in any position she was qualified and able to fill” within CPS. (Fennerty also raised another federal claim, which she later withdrew, and several claims under state law…