DeKalb School District 428

DeKalb school board action Tuesday increased long-term substitute pay for retired teachers from $130 per day to $250 per day, a move district officials said they hope will aid ongoing staffing shortages.

As the need for mental health support among youth has risen to a crisis level amid the pandemic, the leadership at DeKalb District 428 schools say they are struggling to recruit school psychologists.

A presentation to the school board this week gave an overview of what families can expect should students be excluded from in-person instruction due to COVID-19-related illnesses.

The school board was briefed on talks to acquire the facility from NIU to address class size and overcrowding noted in DeKalb District 428 classrooms.

The DeKalb Barbs and Sycamore Spartans kicked off the rivals’ 2022 football seasons at Northern Illinois University’s Huskie Stadium Friday in the 2022 annual FNBO Challenge, fundraising $45,000 to be split between the school’s sports booster clubs.

Four DeKalb District 428 schools were forced to take emergency precautions this week after dangerous gun violence erupted in broad daylight near their campuses, resulting in one person shot and another killed. Here's what that means, explains DeKalb superintendent:

DeKalb District 428′s tentative 125.2 million budget for the upcoming school year projects school officials will operate at a surplus of $1.2 million, and the public will get a chance to weigh in during a hearing in September.

DeKalb District 428 started its school year Thursday. “I hope they make a lot of friends [and] learn a lot,” said Anthony Banks as he stood with his siblings, Fiona and Leo, for their first day of school at Tyler Elementary School in DeKalb.

Rapid antigen testing, saliva testing and social distancing will be here to stay – at least for now – in DeKalb District 428 schools, while masks are optional. Here's what DeKalb schools plan for this year's pandemic-era mitigations:

Students arrived Thursday for the first day of school at Tyler Elementary and other schools in DeKalb School District 428.

As a federal program enacted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide free school lunches for all comes to an end, DeKalb County area school districts are preparing for the 2022-23 school year with plans of their own.

While DeKalb County’s largest public school district will update its sex education curriculum in line with new state standards ahead of the upcoming academic year, Sycamore School District 427 is choosing to opt out, district officials said.

DeKalb city leaders recently agreed to allow the operation of a mobile classroom at Brooks Elementary School to shore up space inside the building for an additional intensive instructional classroom. The classroom can remain for up to three years.

Mental health, fighting and bullying were among some of the issues highlighted this week by DeKalb District 428 youth during an event meant to engage students to give feedback on school life.

The leadership at DeKalb District 428 touted recent progress and laid out a vision for furthering its commitment to the district’s mission to provide education that supports the needs of the whole student during a recent State of the District address.