Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Education
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.
Education
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.
Education
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.
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Brent Johnston, who taught driver education and coached four sports at Hinsdale Central for 34 years, will be inducted into the school's Hall of Fame at a Sept. 17 dinner at Butterfield Country Club in Oak Brook.
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A Hinsdale college engineering instructor is publicly warning District 86 that its planned AI tutoring pilot with NVIDIA and StudyFetch could undermine student learning, citing peer-reviewed research showing AI-assisted students perform worse on unassisted tests.
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District 86 has adopted a "Bell-to-Bell, No Cell" phone policy requiring all Hinsdale South and Hinsdale Central students and staff to keep phones out of sight during instructional periods starting August 12, alongside key back-to-school dates and registration details for the 2026-27 school year.
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Hinsdale South seniors Shivani Joshi and Ahmed Farooqui completed Darien's six-week civic internship, rotating through police, planning, and the mayor's office, and will present capstone projects to the District 86 Board of Education later this summer.
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Incoming Hinsdale Central High School freshmen and new District 86 students can pick up school-issued Chromebooks and take ID photos at four walk-in sessions starting July 29, but only if families have completed online registration first.
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About 225 children are projected to receive groceries this summer from the HCS Family Services pantry at Anne M. Jeans Elementary in Willowbrook, while lead volunteer Peggy Callahan and her team pack up to 150 bags per distribution day at the Hinsdale location on Elm Street to meet surging demand.
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District 86's fiscal year 2027 tentative budget projects a $260,000 surplus on $146.86 million in revenue, while the board's proposed Nvidia AI pilot remains stalled over a data privacy agreement and an Illinois Attorney General investigation, and board member Liz Mitha alleged retaliation by board leadership at the June 25 meeting.
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Incoming Superintendent Chip Pettit told the District 86 board on Thursday, June 25, that directly comparing Hinsdale Central and South is "not healthy" and proposed benchmarking each school against demographically similar peers, a shift that could reshape how South families argue for equal course access.
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After 16 months of work, a District 86 committee chaired by board member Bobby Fischer told the board Thursday it cannot reliably measure whether Hinsdale South students are being denied courses available at Hinsdale Central, leaving South families without district-verified data to back long-standing complaints about academic opportunity disparities.
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Dr. Josh McMahon begins as District 86's Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum on July 1, inheriting several board-approved changes for 2026-27 including gradebook standardization across Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South.
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The Insight Collaboration, a partnership between Hinsdale Central social workers and Community House counselors, has provided free mental health counseling to dozens of students and is now seeking community donations to sustain services through summer and into the next school year.
