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School District Organization

School District Legal Status

The Illinois Constitution requires the State to provide for an efficient system of high quality public educational institutions and services in order to achieve the educational development of all persons to the limits of their capabilities.

The General Assembly has implemented this mandate through the creation of school districts.  The District is governed by the laws for school districts having a population of not fewer than 1,000 and not more than 500,000.

The School board constitutes a body corporate that possesses all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes, and in that name may sue and be sued, purchase, hold and sell personal property and real estate, and enter into such obligations as are authorized by law.

The corporate name of this school district is School District 39, Cook County, Illinois.  The Board, at its regular organizational meeting, shall be organized by administering the oath of office to the newly elected members and shall have the election of officers in compliance with State Law.

Adopted: January 20, 1998