Legal Opinion
Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1 v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided May 27, 2014No. 12 C 10311PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SARA L. ELLIS, United States District Judge
On February 22, 2012, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (the “Board”) announced that ten schools would be “turned around” or “reconstituted,” a process that involves replacing all teachers and staff at those schools. Plaintiffs Donald J. Garrett Jr., Robert Green, and Vivonell Brown, Jr., three African American tenured teachers affected by the turnarounds and the Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1 (“CTU”), filed suit against the Board, alleging that the Board’s decision to turn around these ten schools was racially…
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