Land v. Board of Educ. of City of Chicago

The five plaintiffs are among 138 tenured public school teachers whose employment by the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (Board) was “honorably terminated” on January 22, 1999. Defendants are the Board itself, its individual members, and several officers of the Chicago public schools. After they were laid off from their teaching positions, plaintiffs filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County seeking a writ of mandamus ordering their reinstatement, a declaration that the Board’s layoff policy was invalid under sections 34 — 84 and 34 — 85 of the School Code (105 ILCS…