Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Latest reporting from the Education desk.
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District 86 discussed a free NVIDIA AI pilot at its Aug. 25 board meeting that would let Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South students earn deep learning credentials, with contractual protections against student data misuse, though formal board approval has not yet occurred.
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District 86 discussed a free NVIDIA AI pilot at its Aug. 25 board meeting that would let Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South students earn deep learning credentials, with contractual protections against student data misuse, though formal board approval has not yet occurred.
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District 86's board appointed labor-law firm Himes Petrarca & Fester as special counsel for teacher contract negotiations at its Aug. 25 meeting, formally launching bargaining with the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association while also discussing long-term capital improvements and advancing several policy changes.
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Sophia Chen, Rohan Joshi and Vassanth Ranganathan each earned a perfect 36 composite on the ACT, and U.S. News ranked Hinsdale South No. 66 among Illinois public high schools.
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District 181 opened the 2026-27 school year Thursday with nearly two dozen new hires, including superintendent Jim Wipke and returning assistant superintendent Adrian Fulgencio, marking the broadest staffing refresh in recent memory for the K-8 district.
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Hinsdale Township High School District 86 administrators averaged $150,300 in 2024-25 while teachers averaged $126,543, placing the district's 18.8% pay gap in the middle of DuPage County peers as new Superintendent Chip Pettit makes salary benchmarking a priority.
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Hinsdale Central High School climbed to No. 231 nationally and No. 9 in Illinois in U.S. News & World Report's 2026-27 Best High Schools rankings, outpacing New Trier and Neuqua Valley while trailing only Stevenson among non-selective-enrollment Illinois schools.
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The District 86 Policy Committee met Aug. 18 to update staff training on immigration-enforcement protections at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South, review religion and prayer policy changes driven by two Supreme Court rulings, and revisit FOIA procedures.
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Superintendent Dr. Jim Wipke's inaugural back-to-school letter introduces "The D181 Experience" framework and asks families to set goals with their children before Thursday's first day of school.
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Five Hinsdale institutions co-sponsor a free seminar on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the Hinsdale Community House to help middle and high school families balance academics and activities as the school year begins.
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Hinsdale's packed late-August calendar includes the final D181 board meeting Monday, Aug. 10, before school starts Aug. 19, library programs Tuesday, a record-setting 3-on-3 basketball tournament Saturday at The Community House and the 72nd Annual Ice Cream Social at Burlington Park on Aug. 30.
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Both Hinsdale Central and District 181 already comply with Illinois' new bell-to-bell cellphone ban more than a year before the 2027-28 deadline, with Principal Bill Walsh reporting zero parent complaints and the state's model policy template due Sept. 1.
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District 181's Board of Education meets Monday, Aug. 10, for its last public session before school starts Aug. 19, with a facilities update, budget highlights and new staff on the draft agenda. The Village Board follows Tuesday with a vote on lead water line replacement costs affecting 300 homes.
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Retiring 32-year District 86 math teacher John Schlamann asked the board at its Aug. 3 special meeting to let colleagues try his educational app Kovalna for free, arguing it could replace $5,000-a-year software while getting students off screens and working together on paper.
