D202 board approves discipline improvement plan, hears extracurricular report
The Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education approved a new Discipline Improvement Plan at its Monday night meeting, aiming to reduce racial disparities in out-of-school...
View ArticleQuiana McNeal named new ETHS principal
Evanston Township High School District 202 selected Quiana McNeal as the next principal of ETHS, the district announced in a Monday news release. McNeal currently serves as Director of Curriculum and...
View ArticleCode It! Challenge offers Evanston middle schoolers a path into STEM
Adventures in ancient Greece. Races down snowy mountains. Battles through waves of enemies. These were the basis of some of the 58 games submitted to the third annual Code It! Challenge, according to...
View ArticleNewly elected school board members pledge increased community engagement
When SESP Prof. Nichole Pinkard learned she had won a seat on the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education, she said she felt tremendous gratitude for her supporters — and a sense of...
View ArticleSchool walkability, maintenance dominate D65 closure criteria meetings
Around 140 community members shared their priorities for school closures and consolidations at three community meetings held by Evanston/Skokie School District 65 between April 10 and April 15....
View Article‘There is no greater privilege’: McNeal reflects on path to ETHS, plans to...
Incoming Evanston Township High School Principal Quiana McNeal said she noticed a troubling pattern while working as a prosecutor in Minnesota: as students in her community fell behind in reading, they...
View Article‘They’re going in with a sledgehammer’: Federal policies threaten Evanston...
The Trump administration’s closure of Chicago’s regional Head Start office and planned elimination of federal funding for Head Start programs has left many low-income Evanston families in limbo and...
View ArticleETHS teachers remain committed to ‘honest’ science, history lessons amid...
Even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting schools from providing gender-affirming care or teaching “anti-American” ideologies, one Evanston Township High School teacher...
View ArticleYoung scientists and NU graduate students cross paths at elementary school...
Fifth-grader Kira Hunt wanted to find out whether paper color had an effect on her classmates’ performance on math problems. She hypothesized that students would perform with more speed and accuracy...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Education launches discrimination investigation into...
The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Evanston/Skokie School District 65 over alleged discrimination in its policies Thursday. According to a DOE press release, the...
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