Hinsdale D86 Officials Leaving In June

HINSDALE, IL – The turnover in Hinsdale High School District 86's upper ranks continues.

According to the latest personnel report, Alex Mayster, the district's communications director, who started in February 2024, plans to resign in June.

Patch left a message Monday with Mayster about his plans. He has held similar jobs in other districts.

Also resigning is Lexi Fosco, who became District 86's director of data and analytics last summer.

Fosco, who was previously a math teacher at Hinsdale South, is going to head the math and business department at Orland Park's Carl Sandburg High School, where she is an alumna.

Both Fosco and Mayster are departing as a new superintendent, Chip Pettit, takes the reins.

Since summer 2023, seven people have served in the role of District 86's superintendent, either permanent or interim.

In December 2023, the district's communications director, Chris Jasculca, and his communications coordinator, Alyssa Barry, left amid the turmoil in the months after the school board ousted then-Superintendent Tammy Prentiss.

Jasculca took the same position with Latin School of Chicago.

Meanwhile, Barry became the communications director at Wheaton-based School District 200, where enrollment is three times that of District 86.