Richards v. Board of Education of Township High School District No. 201

This direct appeal is prosecuted by plaintiff, Stanley C. Richards, from a declaratory judgment of the circuit court of Cook County which found section 22 — 5 of the School Code to be constitutional, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1957, chap. 122, par. 22 — 5,) and held that a salary program adopted by defendant, the Board of Education of Township High School District No. 201, did not operate to deny plaintiff due process and equal protection of law.

Plaintiff is a regular, full-time, tenure teacher, having been employed by defendant since 1947, and holds both a master’s degree in mathematics and a life…