YOUR VOICE MATTERS: All BSD2 stakeholders are encouraged to complete the District's superintendent search survey

Please take a moment to complete the BSD2 Superintendent Search Stakeholder Survey, and share your thoughts about the strengths of our schools, the challenges the District is currently facing, what the new leader’s priorities should be, and what professional and personal characteristics you would like to see in our next superintendent.

BECOME A BOARD MEMBER: Board of Education accepting applications to fill vacant seat

The Bensenville Elementary School District 2 Board of Education is seeking a candidate to fill a board vacancy created by the resignation of member Christina Cannon. The appointee will serve until May 2023.

ALL ABOARD: Keeping up with the BSD2 Board of Education is easier than ever now

BSD2 Board of Education meetings have always been open to the public, and the materials Board members review in those meetings are always public documents, available to anyone upon request. Now, though,it is easier than ever for District 2 parents, staff and residents to keep up with the BSD2 Board. No need to attend meetings in person. No need to request copies of the Board’s agenda packets.

ART-BOTICS: BMS students invited to join an exciting new creative robotics series

Build and program a few group projects to learn essential skills. Using this new knowledge, design, build, and program kinetic sculptures or robots. Use motors, sensors, LEDs, and wires, cardboard and other materials to build and decorate these interactive creations.

CHROMEBOOKS: Parents, please review the District's take-home policy

As part of the District 2 One-to-One Chromebook Initiative, all students in Grades K-8 have received a District-owned Chromebook to use this school year.

REMINDER: First trimester mid-term reports available online on Friday, October 8

Wednesday, September 29, was the mid-term of the first trimester of the school year. Progress reports will be posted online on the TeacherEase gradebook portal on Friday, October 8. They will also be printed and sent home on the same date.

MONEY MATTERS: District 2 Board of Education approves 2021-2022 budget

The budget authorizes about $43.6 million of spending, paid for with about $41.3 million in new revenue and $3.75 million of cash reserves to cover costs related to the expansion of the Bensenville Early Learning Center at Tioga School.

READY TO REOPEN: Review the BSD2 2021-2022 In-Person Reopening Plan online

The plan focuses on facilitating a safe return to as close of a normal school year as possible, with students attending classes in person five full days a week. Because we remain in the midst of the COVID pandemic, though, the plan still reviews the District’s COVID mitigation measures,

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Shout out to BMS parents who have submitted vaccination verification for their children

If your child has received the COVID vaccine, please click the link below to complete the confidential online vaccination verification form. The information collected from it will be essential in assisting us in keeping students and staff safe.

AVOID COVID & QUARANTINE: If your child is fully vaccinated, submit a copy of their verification card

Fully vaccinated students are not required to quarantine if exposed to someone with COVID. If your child has received the COVID vaccine, please complete our confidential online vaccination verification form. The information collected from it will be essential in assisting us in keeping students and staff safe.

FRIDA COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: Celebrate 'Día de Muertos' with a month-long workshop

Create your own "Calavera Catrina" during these weekly workshops held at 6 p.m. every Wednesday in October at W.A. Johnson School

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Two confirmed cases produced 11 close contacts last week

A case at Tioga resulted in five close contacts, and a case at Johnson that was reported through the District’s first SHIELD Illinois COVID screening resulted in six close contacts.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: SHIELD Illinois screening begins Monday in BSD2 schools

The test will only be administered to students whose parents signed them up to participate in the program earlier this school year. Once the SHIELD program is running smoothly across the District, enrollment will reopen to allow additional students and staff to participate in the program. Stay tuned for more details.

UPDATED HOURS: The Bensenville & Wood Dale Food Pantry remains open to serve the community

Food for Families pop-up pantries have been cancelled until further notice, but the Bensenville & Wood Dale Food Pantry remains open from 8:30-11 a.m. Saturdays.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Positive cases at Blackhawk send 23 students into quarantine

More than half of these quarantines were preventable. A student attended school for one day and was sent home with COVID symptoms. Had that not happened, 12 quarantined students would still be attending school without interruption.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Two cases produced no close contacts last week

Through three weeks, the District's layered mitigation efforts are proving successful at keeping COVID from spreading in its schools.

FOOD FOR FAMILIES: Monthly pop-up pantries return for the 2021-2022 school year

Does your family need food? Bensenville School District 2, in partnership with Fenton High School, Wood Dale School District 7, the Bensenville/Wood Dale Food Pantry, and Northern Illinois Food Bank, will continue to offer perishable and non-perishable food to families from 4-5:30 p.m. on the following dates this school year.

DEFEND DISTRICT 2: Sign up for SHIELD Illinois COVID screening

District 2 students and staff can help protect themselves and their community from COVID by participating in SHIELD Illinois’ free saliva-based COVID screening this year. To ensure your child is part of this important program, you must submit a consent form.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Week 2 brings one confirmed case, as well as new mask and vaccine mandates from the Governor

Masks must be worn in all indoor settings starting August 30, and all educational employees must provide proof of their COVID vaccination or submit to weekly COVID testing starting September 5.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: School year starts with no new COVID cases

No new COVID diagnoses among BSD2 staff and students were reported to the District during the first week of the 2021-2022 school year. Help us continue this safe start to the school year. Stay home when you are sick, wash your hands, watch your distance, and ALWAYS wear a mask when you are in a BSD2 school.