(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - April. 22, 2019) North Shore School District 112 officials recently unveiled their $40 million plan to modernize Northwood Junior High School and bring the 1950s-era school in line with today’s learning styles...

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - April. 18, 2019) North Shore School District 112 will reduce its full-day kindergarten tuition by 10 percent for the 2019-20 school year as they work toward trying to eliminate tuition in the future...

(Landmark - April 17, 2019) ... An interactive and simulated learning experience with an emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving should be the core of North Shore School District 112 social studies classrooms, a district committee discovered.

(Landmark - April 5, 2019) Illinois has an inequitable tax system and a strategic plan to secure the best education for North Shore School District 112 needs to be the focus, Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld said. The school district’s chief discussed his priorities and nine-school model plan during a Q&A session at the Ravinia Neighbors Association Board meeting on April 4, 2019....

(Landmark - March 25, 2019) Township High School D113 Board of Education, North Shore School D112 Board of Education and Highland Park City Council candidates answer questions and debate one another March 17 at a League of Women Voters debate at the Highland Park Country Club...

(Landmark - March 13, 2019)... A strategic transition plan to provide the best education with the opportunities to succeed for every student during the modernization of North Shore School District 112 is crucial, Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld said at the district’s March 12 Board of Education meeting. 

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - Feb. 4, 2019) Weather extremes like the recent polar vortex have prompted a few suburban school systems to rely on remote learning as an alternative to canceling class and giving students snow days.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - Feb. 4, 2019) North Shore School District 112 will outsource before- and after-school child care next year to Innovation Learning, a for-profit enterprise that has pledged to operate in all seven elementary schools with no minimum enrollment.

(Landmark - Jan 30, 2019) After 15 years of Family Focus providing the before- and after-school activity program for North Shore School District 112, a new company will be providing this service for the 2019-2020 school year. At its Tuesday, Jan. 29 meeting, the North Shore School District 112 school board authorized entering into and signing a license agreement with Innovation Learning from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 with an option to extend the agreement on a year-to-year basis by mutual agreement of the parties.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - Jan. 16, 2019) North Shore School District 112 officials have no objections to changing the location for the HP Community Early Learning Center from Kennedy Park to West Ridge Park if the preschool and the Park District of Highland Park can make the arrangement work.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - Jan. 14, 2019) North Shore School District 112 plans to offer before- and after-school child care next year at all seven elementary schools . The chosen firm, Colorado-based Innovation Learning, will provide child care at no cost to the school system from 6 a.m. until the start of the school day, and from the end of the school day until 6 p.m.. 

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - November 28, 2018) A school board vote Nov. 27 to spend up to $75 million to renovate two middle schools in North Shore School District 112 has kicked off the next phase of preparations for securing funding and relocating students....

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - November 2, 2018) Five elementary schools in North Shore School District 112 were rated “exemplary” on the 2018 Illinois School Report Cards under a new state accountability system that puts more emphasis on student gains than the percentage of students who are proficient.

(HP Patch - November 1, 2018) North Shore School District 112 Superintendent Mike Lubelfeld has adjusted his long-term planning recommendations to eliminate some of the more unpopular elements of his suggestions for the future of the district. Since taking the superintendent post this summer, Lubelfeld has convened an ad hoc committee to present recommendations to the board for the decade ahead.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - November 1, 2018) Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld acknowledged Tuesday that the idea of creating optional school attendance areas in three neighborhoods has proven wildly unpopular with constituents in North Shore School District 112.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - October 29, 2018) More than 500 apartments and townhouses could be built on a 28-acre site off Old Deerfield Road that straddles elementary school districts in Deerfield and Highland Park. Concerns that all of the property tax revenue could go to Deerfield Public Schools District 109 prompted Highland Park-based North Shore District 112 to seek an agreement specifying how tax revenue will be divided among the school districts.

(Landmark - October 26, 2018) Dozens of Highland Park parents and community members filled the Green Bay Early Childhood Center meeting room Tuesday night, urging the North Shore District 112 school board and superintendent to address long-standing boundary issues.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - October 25, 2018) The number of eighth grade students in North Shore School District 112 who reported to the Illinois Youth Survey last February that they’d been bullied within the last year was higher than the number in 2016.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - October 24, 2018) Some north Highland Park parents contend that a $75 million school renovation plan that increases Edgewood Middle School’s capacity to 950 students will perpetuate, if not deepen, educational inequalities between schools in the north and south ends of the district.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - October 22, 2018)  Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld is proposing that North Shore School District 112 invest $75 million to modernize its two middle schools. The improvements would require the temporary relocation of students from Northwood Junior High, then Edgewood Middle School, to other facilities within the district.

(Landmark - October 18, 2018) In an effort to create cross-cultural partnerships, North Shore School District 112 welcomed visitors from Chinese schools throughout the classrooms of three schools Sept. 17. The delegation from China spent time at the district’s administrative center, for an introductory welcome, before touring Braeside Elementary School, Wayne Thomas Elementary School and Edgewood Middle School as part of a week-long visit in the United States.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - October 2, 2018) A developer is asking the City of Highland Park for feedback on an early proposal to transform an industrial site in west Highland Park into a new residential community of 400 apartments, 101 townhouses and 12 homes.

(HP Patch - September 27, 2018) North Shore School District 112 Superintendent Mike Lubelfeld Monday convened the penultimate meeting of a committee tasked with preparing recommendations for the long-term future of the district. The Long Range Planning Committee was presented with the fifth draft of a boundary model for the district and a proposed seven-year plan since it began meeting in July.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - September 19, 2018) A phone survey of 300 residents of North Shore School District 112 in August revealed conflicted feelings on the value of neighborhood schools versus the benefits of reorganizing the district with fewer school buildings.

(HP Patch - August 16, 2018) ... The first day of school in Highland Park is August 20 — and whether you and the kids are looking forward to the new school year or are dreading the end of summer, you'll want to mark the date on your calendar ASAP. The North Shore School District has released its 2018-2019 calendar for public schools.