City Council unanimously approves increase in fiscal year 2021 budget
City Council voted unanimously Monday to pass an ordinance authorizing Interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski to increase the city’s 2021 fiscal year budget by more than $11 million. The council...
View ArticleETHS hires new principal, HR chief
Evanston Township High School District 202 will soon welcome new leadership into the building. ETHS named Taya Kinzie as principal and assistant superintendent and Scott Bramley as assistant...
View ArticleETHS, Northwestern partnership continues even as school leaders depart
Every week, Northwestern and Evanston Township High School students sit and study side by side during School of Education and Social Policy 251: Community Based Research Methods. The class, which...
View ArticleFollowing Haven Middle School students sit in to protest teacher transfers,...
Content warning: This article contains profanity and mentions of symbolic hate speech. Students at Haven Middle School participated in a sit-in Friday, which escalated into a large group temporarily...
View ArticleWith new electric school bus grant, District 65 looks to reduce carbon...
Like many school districts, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 transports its students, spread across 18 schools and nine wards, in diesel-fueled school buses. For local parents like Joey Hailpern, a...
View ArticleHistory Makers Series presents diverse voices to District 65 community
This year, history instruction in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 isn’t just coming from textbooks. As part of the new History Makers Series, three speakers came to D65 schools throughout the year...
View ArticleReading the signs: Parents advocate for District 65 dyslexia diagnosis,...
M., an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 parent, started seeing signs of dyslexia in her youngest child Peter in preschool. Peter struggled to identify and match sounds with letters, but his...
View ArticleRoycemore School breaks ground on Innovation Center, promotes student agency
In his junior year at Roycemore School, Hanu Snyder decided to take his 2020 January Short Term project – completed by upper school Roycemore students – and create a space on campus dedicated to his...
View ArticleDistrict 202 approves $99.2 million budget for Fiscal Year 2023
The Evanston Township High School District 202 school board approved a tentative budget of $99.2 million on Monday, a 3.5% increase from last year’s budget, for Fiscal Year 2023. The board unanimously...
View ArticleDistrict 65 reflects on 2021-22 school year, discusses disproportionately...
Many Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board members called for centering student voices during Monday’s board meeting to plan for the future following a “difficult year” caused by the COVID-19...
View ArticleLGBTQ+ and non-binary students at ETHS push for more gender-neutral bathrooms
LGBTQ+ and non-binary students at Evanston Township High School are advocating for additional gender-neutral bathrooms to create a more inclusive, streamlined environment. Jexa Edinberg, a non-binary...
View ArticleEvanston school districts release free and reduced-price lunch applications
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School District 202 released information about applications for free and reduced-price meals for the 2022-23 academic year. Following the...
View ArticleSTEM School Evanston seeks feedback from Black residents
Evanston’s 5th Ward has not had a community school for more than 50 years. With an elementary school on the way, nonprofit STEM School Evanston aims to ensure community voices are heard. The group...
View ArticleMarquise Weatherspoon resigns from District 65 school board
Marquise Weatherspoon has resigned from the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board as of Monday. Weatherspoon joined the board in 2021 for a two-year term, filling the vacancy left by Rebeca Mendoza....
View ArticleDistrict 65 elects Soo La Kim as vice president, prioritizes labor management...
At the first meeting of the school year, the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education elected a new vice president and discussed best practices for employer-worker relationships....
View ArticleEvanston School Children’s Clothing Association returns to in-person orders...
Evanston School Children’s Clothing Association is returning to its pre-pandemic format this school year: Students and families can again go to the organization’s clothing center to pick out their...
View ArticleDistrict 65 board to choose from 12 hopefuls to fill seat left by Anya...
Content warning: this article discusses anti-Black hate crimes and hate symbols. A Northwestern sociology professor, a real estate broker and former preschool director, an issues director for the...
View ArticleETHS addresses concerns among LGBTQ+ students and adds gender-neutral bathrooms
Evanston Township High School has altered two single-gender restrooms to serve as all-gender restrooms, a move some students say is emblematic of progress for the school’s LGBTQ+ population. ETHS...
View ArticleFoundation 65 aims to empower Evanston educators
About two years ago, Evanston Township High School student Sophia Petrof came to her mother with a question: How could they help students struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic? Petrof, now a senior,...
View ArticleDistrict 65 School Board announces Mya Wilkins as new member
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 announced during a Monday special board meeting that Mya Wilkins (Kellogg ’06) will join the D65 School Board. Wilkins, a parent to two students in the district,...
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