(Highland Landmark News - June, 13, 2019) ... With less than a month left in its fiscal year, the North Shore School District 112 amended its approved fiscal year budget for the 2018-2019 year at its June 11 regular meeting. (pay wall access)

(Highland Landmark News - June, 11, 2019) Northwood Junior High School held an official groundbreaking ceremony outside the school on June 4 to celebrate construction of the new Northwood Middle School. After the North Shore School District 112 Board of Education approved funding for the project late last year, students, staff and the community have been looking forward to the modernization of their old school. (Pay wall access) 

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - June, 10, 2019) The city of Highland Park is moving forward with plans to add street lighting to the Ravinia Business District in response to appeals from residents and property owners who view lighting as critical to revitalizing the area and sparking private investment.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - June, 6, 2019) North Shore School District 112 officials are hoping to discourage Northwood Junior High School parents from driving their students to Elm Place Middle School while Northwood undergoes a partial reconstruction.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - May, 22, 2019) With summer break on the horizon, the North Shore School District 112 Board of Education approved its second middle school curriculum update this month at its May 21 meeting. The new math curriculum is called Pearson enVision 2.0 and was recommended to the Board at its May 7 meeting. It was picked by a committee that included teachers and administrators from Northwood and Edgewood middle schools and Highland Park High School.

(Chicago Tribune Highland Park News - May, 14, 2019) The gaggle of grownups who recently trekked through the halls of Oak Terrace Elementary School in Highwood with balloons and flowers drew some inquisitive looks from students.

(Highland Landmark News - May, 8, 2019) After giving a glowing review to a new recommended middle school social studies curriculum at its April 16 meeting, North Shore School District 112 School Board stamped it with a unanimous green light at its May 7 meeting. The new curriculum is the TCI History Alive program and was chosen based on findings from a committee made up of teachers and administrators from both Northwood and Edgewood middle schools and Highland Park High School. The committee also included dual language and special education instructors. 

(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.