Legal Opinion
Pilditch v. Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 1993No. Nos. 92-3932, 92-4050PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
In an effort to give parents and local citizens more control over the public school system, the Illinois Legislature in 1989 passed an education reform measure that created local councils in each school district and invested them with the power to hire and fire principals. 105 ILCS 5/34-2.2. Principals accustomed to job security were stripped of *1115tenure and made to serve under four-year renewable contracts. One casualty of the new system, Walter E. Pilditch, brought this reverse discrimination suit claiming that the only reason he was fired from his position as…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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3Cited by21 opinions
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