Heather Cherone – Page 8

Newly named Carpenter Elementary School Assistant Principal Emilie Creehan listens as the District 64 board considers her appointment, as Carpenter Elementary Principal Principal Brett Balduf looks on.

District 64’s Carpenter School adds new assistant principal

May 23, 2019 at 4:57 a.m.

Carpenter Elementary School will have a new assistant principal when school starts in August, after a unanimous vote by the Park Ridge-Niles District 64 Board of Education. Emilie Creehan, who...

Maine East High School, 2601 W. Dempster St., Park Ridge.

New classrooms, new library among Maine East proposals as district officials consider referendum plan

May 23, 2019 at 4:57 a.m.

Residents quizzed Maine Township High School District 207 officials about plans to renovate Maine East High School with classrooms designed to encourage collaboration, an expanded fine arts department and a...

Police are investigating after a report of a man who asked a female middle school student for her phone number and also solicited a sex act from a woman Monday afternoon near Lincoln Middle School.

Park Ridge police to boost patrols after man suspected of approaching student, woman near Lincoln Middle School

May 23, 2019 at 4:57 a.m.

The Park Ridge Police Department was planning to step up patrols outside schools in Park Ridge on Tuesday after police said a man asked a 13-year-old seventh-grade student for her...

The rusted and uneven stairs to District 64's offices at 164 S. Prospect Ave. pose an immediate hazard to visitors and employees, officials told the board of education this week. The building also has no ramp for wheelchair access.

District 64’s Park Ridge offices in need of ‘gut rehab;’ board to explore options

May 23, 2019 at 4:57 a.m.

The Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 board is split over what to do with its administration's offices at the Raymond E. Hendee Educational Service Center, which officials said needs extensive...

John Bollman, center, talks to the the media in Chicago Thursday, April 26, with Joey Lombardi, left, and attorney Marc Pearlman, right, after the announcement of five lawsuits alleging Lake Bluff school officials knew former teacher Charles Ritz sexually abused students.

Lake Bluff school officials knew ex-teacher sexually abused students but did nothing, lawsuits claim

May 23, 2019 at 10:07 a.m.

Lake Bluff School District 65 officials knew a teacher held parties from 1975 to 1985 where he gave students drugs and alcohol and abused them sexually but "turned a blind...

Months after the school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla., the Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 board agreed to speed up efforts to tighten security at Emerson Middle School and three elementary schools.

District 64 board agrees to speed up planned efforts to amp up security at four schools

May 23, 2019 at 4:57 a.m.

Months after the school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla., the Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 board agreed to speed up already in-the-works efforts to tighten security at...

Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 headquarters, 164 S. Prospect Ave.

Park Ridge police would assign one resource officer to Lincoln Middle School, officials say

May 23, 2019 at 4:57 a.m.

A single officer would be assigned to Lincoln Middle School by Park Ridge police if Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 moves forward with a pilot school resource officer program, officials...

Forty-four percent of students disciplined for being late to class at Oak Park and River Forest High School at least five times from August through December are black — though black students make up 22 percent of the student body, stated a report prepared for the OPRF board.

OPRF principal vows to do ‘deeper dive’ to explain disproportionate discipline for black students

May 8, 2019 at 12:18 p.m.

Forty-four percent of students disciplined for being late to class at Oak Park and River Forest High School at least five times from August through December are black — despite...

Oak Park River Forest High School's tennis courts are in need of "immediate repair" and would be resurfaced this summer as part of a plan backed by the board of education.

In need of ‘immediate repair’: OPRF board backs plan to resurface school’s tennis courts

May 8, 2019 at 12:18 p.m.

Oak Park and River Forest High School's cracked and pitted tennis courts are in need of "immediate repair" and would be resurfaced this summer as part of a plan backed...

Effort to protect transgender students endorsed by Oak Park and River Forest High School board

May 8, 2019 at 12:17 p.m.

A new policy endorsed by the Oak Park and River Forest High School Board on April 17 would require students "be treated and supported in a manner consistent with their...

All Stories