Smith v. Board of Education

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CARTER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by the petitioner, Anna Joy Smith, from an order of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County dismissing her petition for a writ of mandamus ordering her reinstatement with back pay as a teacher for the school year 1975-76.

Petitioner is a tenured teacher in the East St. Louis School District No. 189, having entered into contractual continued service at the conclusion of the 1957-58 school term pursuant to section 24 — 2 of the School Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1957, ch. 122, par. 24—2). She was employed by the respondent…