The Chicago Board of Education and a former school engineer have agreed to settle a suit claiming the engineer was improperly fired after expressing concern about a drag show, court records show.
A brief docket entry Friday noted that the parties had executed a settlement agreement. The terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed.
- April Lopez, a former chief engineer at Disney II Magnet School in Chicago, was terminated in 2023, allegedly because she complained about a drag-show poster in the school hallway.
- Judge Edmond Chang of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a ...