D202 board hears sustainability policy update, student fees adjustment proposal
Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education heard an update about the district’s sustainability policy at its meeting Monday evening. Since the district’s Green New Deal...
View ArticleIllinois State House bill aims to give student teachers stipends
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would provide student teachers $10,000 stipends per semester for up to two consecutive semesters. The bill, H.B. 4652, passed 85 to 23...
View ArticlePanel discusses 70 year Brown v. Board legacy in present-day education
Evanston Township High School Superintendent Marcus Campbell called the community he grew up in on the south side of Chicago “hyper-segregated.” He said he grew up going to predominantly Black schools...
View ArticleDistrict 65 Board to vote on resolution on potential Bessie Rhodes closure
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education voted 6-1 to introduce a resolution for closing the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies after the 2025-26 school year. The vote came at...
View ArticleDistrict 65 Board hears 5th Ward school naming update, presentation on...
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education heard an update on how to name the future 5th Ward school at its meeting Monday night. The meeting followed the third and final public hearing...
View ArticleDistrict 65 School Board votes to close Dr. Bessie Rhodes School
Parents and children holding signs that read “Yo Soy Bessie Rhodes” and “Save Bessie Rhodes” walked out of the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education meeting, some in tears, after the...
View ArticleFifth ward school to be named “Foster School” at groundbreaking, decades in...
In 2005, Evanston native Jerome Summers started his fight to reopen a 5th Ward neighborhood school, Foster School, which he had attended through the fifth grade in the ‘60s. That is until he began...
View ArticleDistrict 65 Board of Education passes FY25 budget with $13 million deficit,...
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education unanimously passed the district’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year with a $13 million deficit at its meeting Monday night. The board also heard...
View ArticleDistrict 202 board approves 2025 fiscal year budget, debuts data dashboard
Evanston Township High School District 202 approved its $113.4 million fiscal year 2025 budget, discussed new and revised courses for the new school year and presented a soon-to-be-released public data...
View ArticleOakton Elementary locked down after person with gun moves through area
Content warning: This article contains discussions of firearms. Oakton Elementary School went on lockdown Thursday afternoon after reports of a person with a gun in the area, Evanston Police Department...
View ArticleETHS community slowly adjusts to new ‘Bell-to-Bell No Cell’ policy
One month into the implementation of Evanston Township High School’s new “Bell-To-Bell, No Cell” phone policy, senior and student representative Rachel Durango-Cohen said she and her peers have...
View ArticleCity Council approves tracks, lighting for Foster School
City Council approved funding for field lights and an athletic track at the upcoming Foster School following a 7-2 vote at Monday’s meeting. With a planned August 2026 opening, the space will be the...
View ArticleCity-School Liaison Committee discusses Guaranteed Income Program, grant...
The City-School Liaison Committee discussed the Guaranteed Income Program, the November general election and grant opportunities Tuesday night at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. The committee...
View ArticleETHS’ 67th YAMO production aims to get out the vote
Evanston Township High School’s 67th production of YAMO, a student-created sketch-comedy show, takes audience members through a year at YAMO High. Following the theme ‘YAMO: Ate My Homework,’ the show...
View ArticleD202 board passes Fiscal Year 2025 Capital Improvement Plan, develops land...
The Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education unanimously passed its Fiscal Year 2025 Capital Improvement Plan and held an Indigenous Peoples Day land acknowledgement ceremony at...
View ArticleBessie Rhodes families protest planned closure of 7th, 8th grade classes
About 30 parents and students protested outside the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies on Thursday morning, demanding the district reverse its plans to close the school’s seventh and eighth...
View Article‘A way that makes sense to them’: ETHS multilingual services aim to support...
Lindsey Rose, Evanston Township High School’s multilingual services director, calls the school’s emergent multilingual courses “a little United Nations.” The ETHS multilingual services department...
View ArticleDistrict 65 board discusses meeting with Bessie Rhodes parents, proposals for...
As Evanston/Skokie School District 65 administrators and board members walked into the Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center on Monday, more than 100 teachers in the District 65 Educators’ Council...
View Article‘We pick here’: Bessie Rhodes community continues protesting planned 7th, 8th...
Juana Vazquez, who has a seventh grader at Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies, said her daughter, Destiny, has high anxiety around not seeing her friends or teachers. Destiny Vazquez’s anxiety...
View ArticleETHS students visit polls for November election, stress importance of voting
Miten Patel, an AP United States Government and Politics teacher at Evanston Township High School, took students to the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, the city’s early voting station, on Tuesday. The...
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