CPS student-athletes file lawsuit seeking temporary restraining order to allow them to compete in playoffs during teachers strike

The Chicago Tribune reports:

A group of Chicago Public Schools cross-country runners has sued the Illinois High School Association and the school district, hoping to circumvent a policy that prevents student-athletes from competing in state-sanctioned tournaments when their teachers are on strike.


The suit, filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court by the families of 14 students from Jones College Prep, is seeking a temporary restraining order that would allow the runners to participate in postseason competition that begins this weekend.


According to IHSA policy, no team can "participate in an interscholastic contest or activity” when school is not in session “due to a strike by teachers or other school personnel.”

But Kevin Sterling, the attorney who filed the lawsuit and whose son also runs for Jones College Prep, said they requested that the IHSA reexamine its bylaws to find an exception that would allow the student-athletes to compete.

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