Williette Price v. Board of Education of the City

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Williette Price was part of a massive economic layoff of Chicago Public Schools (“CPS”) teachers in 2010. She argues that, as a tenured teacher, she had a property interest in continued employment as a teacher anywhere within CPS before being laid off, and that the Board of Education violated the Due Process Clause by depriving her of that property interest. Because Price cannot point to any source that gives her the type of property interest she asserts, we affirm the lower court’s decision to dismiss her complaint for failure to state a claim.

I. BACKGROUND

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