Cravener v. Board of Education

Citations

• 133 Ill. 145
• 24 N.E. 532

Syllabus

<p>1. Schools—annexation of cities, etc.—control of schools within the ■annexed territory. By virtue of the annexation of the town of Lake to the city of Chicago, the Board of Education of the city of Chicago be■came vested with exclusive jurisdiction over the public schools within the town of Lake.</p> <p>2. Same—school property, etc.—subject to legislative control—in changing the trusteeship. School corporations, as the trustees of school property, are wholly within the control of the General Assembly, and may be changed at its pleasure. If there is a trust in the school lands, funds, etc., it can be enforced in the hands of one custodian or corporation as 'well as if no change had been made.</p> <p>3. There is nothing in the grant of the sixteenth section of land by the United States to this State for the use of schools, nor in section 2, ■article 8, of the State constitution, to prevent the legislature from taking the control of schools and school property from the educational board of one township and vesting it in a different board, or a board of another township.</p>