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Parents gather outside the District 64 meeting after urging the board to reverse a new policy that would send their children, who have significant disabilities, to middle school one year early.

Parents upset over District 64 plan for students with disabilities to start middle school in 5th grade

May 23, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 students who have significant disabilities would start middle school in fifth grade — one year early — under a proposal condemned by parents who said...

Maine East High School's Blue Regiment members perform holiday songs during Winterfest in Park Ridge.

‘It really gets you in the spirit’: Park Ridge’s Winterfest kicks off the holiday season

May 23, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

Lit by thousands of Christmas lights, Uptown Park Ridge transformed Friday night into a winter wonderland as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the start of the holiday shopping season...

Santa Claus arrives at the Norridge Village Hall on Nov. 25.

An engaging Christmas celebration in Norridge

May 9, 2019 at 1:58 p.m.

Santa Claus found himself unexpectedly playing second fiddle at Norridge's holiday open house and tree lighting Saturday when Norridge Park District Board Commissioner Jack Bielak seized the spotlight. Holding a...

District 64 Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Lori Lopez, far right, details District 64's performance on standardized exams during a meeting on Nov. 13.

District 64 aims to boost students’ performance on future state tests

May 23, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

Park Ridge-Niles District 64 students' performance on statewide reading and math exams in 2017 was largely flat compared to the year before, prompting district officials to launch an audit to...

Park Ridge Police Officer Kevin Ryan, the school resource officer assigned to Maine East High School, displays one of the newest e-cigarette smoking devices he confiscated from teens. Ryan appeared at a forum Nov. 14 at Lincoln Middles School designed to highlight the dangers of vaping.

Threat of higher fine helps reduce vaping at Maine South, Maine East: officials

May 23, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

The threat of a $500 fine has reduced the number of students using e-cigarettes at Maine South and Maine East high schools, officials said last week at a forum hosted...

‘There will never be another one like him:’ Park Ridge native remembered for entertaining as Myron Noodleman

May 23, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

A Park Ridge native who entertained thousands at minor league baseball games with the lovable nerd character he dubbed Myron Noodleman is being remembered as a "comic genius." Rick Hader...

School District 64 Board President Anthony Borrelli said Monday that it was "unfair" to have a discussion about the policy governing school resource officers because it had not been completed.

Hold off on stationing officers at District 64 middle schools, parents tell board members

May 23, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

Park Ridge parents this week called upon Park Ridge-Niles District 64 school board members to hold off on approving the rules that will govern the uniformed officers set to be...

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