Stories about Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202
The school is located on the far west side of Joliet, and the damage marks one more example of the scattered impact of the storm across the city.
Plainfield School District 202 has approved the hiring of Ashley Lamorte as principal at Wesmere Elementary School.
Joliet Township High School District 204 wants to add more school resource officers.
After a season fraught with complications, Luke Winder, a former IHSA state pole vaulting champion and owner of Rise Pole Vault in Joliet, placed sixth at his first Olympic trials in Oregon June 23.
Local school districts give the State Seal of Biliteracy to encourage students to pursue biliteracy and honor students’ mastery of two or more languages.
Retired District 202 technology teacher Margie Bonuchi receives 2023 Walter G. and Juanita F. Niehus Award in honor of extraordinary commitment to students, parents and employees.
District 202 sends athletes to the Illinois Special Olympic Summer Games in the first year for the middle school program.
Plainfield School District 202 hires two new elementary school principals
Plainfield Community Consolidated School District approved a new contract with its support staff employees which closes the wage gap between the district and neighboring schools.
After receiving a letter from an eighth grader asking questions for a research project, Civil Rights activist Edith Lee-Payne paid JFK Middle School in Plainfield a visit.
Plainfield Police Officer Dean Klier said his experience in his first year as a school resource officer has taught him that "everybody has a story,” whether it’s “inside the school or on the street.”
District 202's parent organization recognized 95 “outstanding parents, community members, teachers and staff members for their dedication to students, their schools and community” at the 48th annual awards night on April 16.
Tom Hernandez came to District 202 in 2006 as its director of community relations and remained in that role in 2003. Hernandez was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.
District 202’s Plainfield Parent Community Network will present this free program. Professional development credits (CEUs and CPDUs) will be available for all certified educators attending this program.
More than 130 students from 12 high schools competed in the competition,
Glenn Wood, superintendent of District 202 in Plainfield, said the parade celebrated Hernandez’s contributions to the community. Wood called Hernandez the “consummate professional” and a man of “great character.”
Registration is required for Saturday's event. Hernandez, former director of community relations for District 202 in Plainfield, has battled brain cancer since 2022.
The Ira Jones Middle School National Junior Honor Society will host its fourth annual Family Game Night fundraiser on Friday at the school.
More than 200 students at the four Plainfield School District 202 high schools have been honored.
Trained personnel or the school nurse can administer undesignated quick relief asthma medicine when any individual at District 202 in Plainfield – students, staff or members of the community – experience respiratory distress.
The Plainfield South High School Black Student Association is inviting the community to help open the free Feb. 23 Black History Month showcase by singing the Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice.”
The failed settlement occurs months after a judge dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit case alleging two former Plainfield Central High School football players were subjected to sexual assault and hazing.
Bags of Hope provides weekend food to students in Bolingbrook, Crest Hill, Joliet, Lockport, Plainfield and Romeoville.
The career and job fair is a partnership between Plainfield High School-Central Campus and the Workforce Development Program of Will County.
Three seniors from District 202 have been as semifinalists for National Merit Scholarship program.
Attendees will walk the school’s track for an hour” in honor or in memory of someone touched by suicide,” according to District 202 in Plainfield.
All school levels have new assistant principals.
Tim Albores, director of student services for high school and ED/alternative programs at District 202 in Plainfield, helps the district partner with many community resources for its families.
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Savena Joiner wants a diverse workforce at District 202. Margarita Morelos wants more supports for parents and students.
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District 202 will begin this budgeted capital improvement work immediately, which is scheduled for completion for August 2023.
Local Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies typically offer a site-based or community-based program. But the Joliet agency created a hybrid of both specifically for students at District 202 in Plainfield. Volunteers are needed.
The National Merit Scholarship Program is a nationwide competition for recognition and awards conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Plainfield School District 202 has announced that 17 of its seniors have been awarded “Commended” status in the 2023 National Mer
Plainfield South High School has four new assistant principals for the 2022-23 school year.
Lincoln Elementary School and John F. Kennedy Middle school began the 2022-23 school year with new assistant principals. Christopher Jeziorny is the newest assistant principal at JFK and Lincoln welcomed Jen Napravnik.
More than 25,000 Plainfield School District 202 students, from kindergarten to high school, returned to the classroom last week.
The Plainfield School District 202 Board of Education approved two new elementary school assistant principal appointments at its regular meeting on Monday, July 25.
The District 202 Foundation for Excellence has presented the 2022 Walter G. and Juanita F. Niehus Award to Dr. Lane Abrell, who retired as District 202 superintendent of schools on June 30, 2022 after more than 20 years in the district.
The Minooka Community High School District 111 Board of Education has announced the hiring of Jamie Soliman as the new principal of Minooka Community High School.
Ten District 202 graduates have each received a $2,000 Advanced Placement Summer Institute Financial Bridge Student Scholarship. The recipients were chosen from among 19 applicants for this scholarship based on their academic success, school and community involvement and financia
Liz Massaro moves up as student services director for Plainfield School District 202.
Plainfield East High School senior Katrina Hidalgo is one of 24 students nationwide chosen to attend the Juilliard School in New York for dance.
Gabriel Rodriguez-McSwine, 16, has been charged as an adult with the attempted murder of a teen outside Meadow View Elementary School in Plainfield.
A Plainfield Central High School student has been charged with the attempted murder of a 17-year-old they allegedly shot in the leg earlier this week outside a local elementary school, police said.
Parents of two former Plainfield Central High School football players have filed an amended lawsuit with allegations that officials and coaches violated federal requirements in 2019 by not properly investigating the alleged sexual assault and ongoing harassment against them.
Plainfield Central High School senior Anesa Nevzadi is a 2022 state champion journalist. Navzadi won first place in the Video News category at the IHSA state championships on April 22 in Normal.
The Plainfield Community Consolidated School District District 202 and the Association of Plainfield Teachers have agreed to a new three-year contract that provides raises and improves benefits for the district's 1,900 certified staff union members.
District 202′s board of education approved the appointments of three principals its May 9 regular meeting.
Two students earned national awards in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and nine students students received top awards in the Plainfield Public Library's annual short story contest.