Legal Question in Education Law in Illinois

Re: Removal of School Board Member

Outside of defeating the school board member when they run for re-election, not much. If the community, faculty, other board members and the administration support the teacher, there may be a chance of saving her job. Especially community members.

Members of any board have no individual authority - only when they act as a group. That is the theory, but while they have no individual power, they have a ton of individual 'respect'/fear.

If the teacher is young, I would suggest leaving. If the teacher is at the point on the salary schedule where they would take a loss by moving, fight. By that point, the teacher should have -some- community support. My administration had to undermine mine before they could get rid of me and I was only the librarian.

If you come up with something because this is the kind of question that sent me to law school. I paid attention to these issues throughout law school and never worked out a satisfactory answer myself.

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