Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
School Code
Court properly granted summary judgment for School Board, which had app roved dismissal charges against tenured teacher, on basis that teacher failed to complete remediation plan. Parties agreed that hearing officer would conduct a dismissal hearing. Hearing was rescheduled 3 times by agreement of parties. Hearing officer lacked authority to stay dismissal hearing as her discretion was limited to granting a stay for good cause. Neither of the 2 bases for stay of dismissal, as defined in School Code (illness and unavoidable emergency), existed. Teacher's grievance proceeding was not an unavoidable emergency.(ROCHFORD and DELORT, concurring.)