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SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION

 

School District Legal Status

The IllinoisConstitution 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.  Macomb Community Unit School District No. 185 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 district constitutes a body corporate thatpossesses 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.

LEG. REF.:             Ill. Constitution, Art. X, Sec. 1.
                                105 ILCS 5/10-1 et seq.

CROSS REF.:         2:10 (School District Governance), 2:20 (Powers and Duties of the School Board)                                       

                            Adopted 9-16-97
Revised 10-15-07