A number of challengers are seeking spots on the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 school board. Five candidates are vying for three open spots in the race.
Reid McCollum has stepped down from Asma Akhras’ campaign for Hinsdale Township High School District 86 after being caught engaging in dirty tricks on behalf of the campaign.
Noel Manley is celebrating the resignation of Reid McCollum from the campaign of Asma Akhras Hinsdale Township High School District 86.
Hinsdale Township High School District 86’s Patrice Payne will be leaving the district effective June 9. Payne’s departure was noted in a personnel report for the school board’s April 13 meeting. https://go.boarddocs.com/il/hinsdale86/Board.nsf/Public#
Local GOP activist Noel Manley is cheering the departure of Hinsdale Township High School District 86’s Director of Instructional Equity Patrice Payne.
Parents of Hinsdale South High School students are criticizing an email sent by school administrators to Black and Hispanic AP students as exclusionary and racist.
New D86 Assistant Superintendent Jason Markey was the focal point of a letter authored by teachers at his past employer District 225 who accused him of creating a “toxic evironment.”
Darien resident Tom Weiland called out Hinsdale 86 Superintendent Tammy Prentiss for hiring an outwardly biased “anti-racism” consultant Valda Valbrun in 2022.
91.4% of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 students graduated in 2022 after four years of schooling, according to the Illinois Report Card.
Enrollment at Hinsdale Township High School District 86 fell from the previous year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
Hinsdale Township High School District 86 welcomed 3,898 students in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In Hinsdale Township High School District 86, 2,429 white students were enrolled in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In DuPage County districts, 9,003 Black students were enrolled in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
Michelle Cordova-Ptak is calling for Hinsdale School District 86 school board member Asma Akhras to resign from either the school board or her board position with the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Prior to the end of the Oct. 26 Hinsdale District 86 school board meeting school board member Kay Gallo left the boardroom and sent an email noting her resignation “effective immediately.