Case: Kolz v. Board of Education

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a class action lawsuit in which city school teachers who had been transferred from one public school to another sued the Board of Education of the City of Chicago. The plaintiffs alleged that the board’s transfer of over 2,000 teachers to different schools violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights and that the exemption of teachers over the age of fifty-five from this plan resulted in age discrimination against younger teachers. The case was filed on July 15, 1977, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.