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   Oak Park Wednesday Journal (Newspaper) - August 21, 1985, Oak Park, Illinois                                OAK PARK RIVER 21/1965  6, No. 5  teachers hired Park school board silent on issues in free speech GAOL Oak Park elementary school board wift immediately rehire the two teachers who won a lawsuit charging their rights of free speech had been But the board held off taking action cm the addressed in the two Longfellow School Linda Beck Olson and Robert had chaffed in July that they were not rehired for vacant positions at Longfellow because they had spoken out against the district's of the characters in this book by Oak Park writer Jeannette Mines live in Oak Park and River Learn how the local setting came to from writer Doug Deuchler Rescheduling essentially means that students are placed in small group classes of approximately 15 to 1 for uninterrupted reading and math Aug. 17, a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James B. Moran substantiated the accompanying citizens at Monday's meeting called for the school board to immediately address the of gut school board president Donald Childs told the overflow crowd at the Aug. 19 meeting that the board would not publicly discuss the situation any further at will be public discussion when we know what we need to It will be several weeks before we know anything Childs federal ruling also came into when a proposal to extend the contract of Superintendent Ernest R. Mueller was although it was an agenda item for the Mueller have asked the board to refrain from taking any action on my contract until they have a chance to review all aspects of this School Superintendent Ernest Mueller asked Monday to delay his contract read a statement prepared by the board which said that rehiring the contemplating what next legal measures the district should take in this litigation will provide the opening of school for Longfellow statement also indicated continued support for rescheduling and a desire to pursue the matter in on page 12  first school candidates throw their hats into the ERIC are at least some candidates officially in the November school election race in Oak Park and River but no one entered the fray at Triton College on Monday's initial day of 19 marked the opening day for filing petitions for candidacy in the Nov. 5 elections to the boards setting policy for the elementary school districts in River Forest and Oak for Oak Forest High School and for Triton The election field will not be final until Aug. 26, when filing the first Oak Park District 97 incumbents Myrtle Mason and Richard Newman filed for ballot position as But the first spot on the ballot went to Charles a professor of music history at Roosevelt said he entered the race independent of any Oak Park group and that he is with the hope that there cap be a more less less divisive to debate on school He has a daughter in the elementary school system and a son who completed eighth grade this past on page teachers won complex court ERIC Olson and Robert Trezevant sued the Oak Park elementary school district to get their teaching jobs On Aug. 17, they joined their relatives and supporters in celebration of District Court Judge James B. Moran concluded that the Oak Park elementary school district had fired the two Longfellow School teachers in violation of their constitutional right to disagree with the rescheduling Moran's ruling also disputed School Superintendent Ernest Mueller's position that rescheduling is a voluntary Park District 97) of education his to administer the school district according to the law and that ktw W something different happens as a result of court snd Mr. Trezevant bl at Longfellow dramatic court those words Moran ended an often dramatic emergency court The hearing was on the two charge that they were fired as retribution for actions and comments critical of the district's rescheduling Olson and Trezevant each had asked for million in punitive Action on that matter will be taken up later if a full trial takes filed suit against the school district and its top officials on July 8. A veteran of two years at Olson charged that her opposition to rescheduling resulted in dismissal despite an exemplary teaching After filing Olson was offered a job at Mann School in Oak but continued the court action in an effort to retain her Longfellow Trezevant's filed July 22, made a similar although he had not been offered any job with the school The two suits later were combined in one court the evenings of Aug. 13, 14 and 15, nine testifying under and producing previously private revealed the background behind the charges and behind the lawsuits by Olson and The testimony and documents clarified in public the charges of repression of school personnel which had until now been made only in private by district agreed with teachers and a vocal group of parents had maintained that school district officials were inconsistent in their public statements and private that the rescheduling program was a mandatory program rather the voluntary undertaking suggested by the and that teachers faced retaliation for speaking out against the Moran agreed with the parents and and his ruling disputed the school denials of the climate was the implementation of This is what we want to and we're on page 11  GETTING READY FOR KINDERGARTEN - THE SCHOOL PAGE 13

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