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Superintendent Nicolas Wade speaks at the Elmwood Park High School 2018 graduation ceremony. The superintendent last week received a contract extension.

Elmwood Park District 401 superintendent’s contract extended through 2024

May 23, 2019 at 10:29 p.m.

Nicolas Wade, the superintendent at Elmwood Park School District 401, last week received a contract extension that runs through 2024. The extension was unanimously approved by the school board at...

‘A whole new world’: West Leyden class helps recent grad soar to new heights

May 10, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

A West Leyden alum’s future plans are now up in air, thanks to a Leyden elective class. Jesus Cano, a 2018 graduate, has West Leyden teacher Alicia Kadlitz and her...

East Leyden High School in Franklin Park.

Leyden schools battle vaping with locked and guarded bathrooms, fliers: ‘It’s really gotten pretty out of hand’

May 10, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

Red fliers warning of the addictive nature of e-cigarettes and vaping lined the walls of the front hallway of East Leyden High School last week. They were posted by the...

East Leyden construction project likely to last past August 2019

May 10, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

Members of the Leyden High School District 212 school board learned at their Oct. 11 meeting that completion of the construction project at the East Leyden campus is expected to...

Wall of Fame: Leyden’s latest honorees star in worlds of theater, science

May 10, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Brian Fruits and Laura Porro both found themselves back in the halls of Leyden high schools for what would prove to be a special homecoming for the newest inductees to...

Norridge and Harwood Heights community members gathered at the Eisenhower Public Library on Sept. 18 to hear Mark Klaisner of the West Cook Intermediate Service Center speak on the process of school district consolidation.

School consolidation questions and answers: Regional director speaks in Harwood Heights

May 9, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

The consolidation of school districts in Illinois typically is a five-step process that can take about two years, a regional school district executive director said during a Sept. 18 program...

Leyden moving forward with plans to add professional day care facility

May 10, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Plans for Leyden High School District 212 to add a professional day care facility to the East Leyden campus moved forward during a school board meeting in August. The board...

The Leyden High School Trades Fair was held at both East and West Leyden on Sept. 14.

Considering their options: Trades fair helps provide information for Leyden students

May 10, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Students headed into a room full of booths that were set up to talk trade on Sept. 14 at both East and West Leyden high schools. A trades fair capped...

Ashley Santiago-Sanchez reads a letter about what competing in the Special Olympics meant to her with help from her coach Caryn Hart as her teammate Anayli Alatorre looks on during a Leyden School District 212 board meeting.

‘It’s about trying your best’: Leyden honors team captains, Special Olympics participants

May 10, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

The Leyden District 212 Board of Education’s Sept. 15 meeting opened up with a flurry of student recognition. The board temporarily relocated the meeting to the East Leyden library to...

Leyden School Board President Gregory Ignoffo speaks as Joe Sanchez looks on during a school board meeting.

The voice of their peers: Leyden student reps take seats on school board

May 10, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

East Leyden senior Joe Sanchez and West Leyden senior Jacqueline Quinones are ready to be the voices for students on the Leyden School District 212 Board of Education. In 2016,...

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