Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault. With a new city manager selection on the horizon, Evanston’s cohort of new leaders continues to expand. In areas like education and municipal leadership, local elections and searches have overwhelmingly selected people new to Evanston politics over the past three years. From the mayor to City.
Deputy superintendent LaTarsha Green offered updates on the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 new strategic plan draft at Monday’s Curriculum and Policy Committee meeting. Green said the strategic plan focuses on five main goals: implementing equity practices, providing access to high-quality and culturally relevant curricula, recruiting and training effective staff, allocating resources for long-term stability and.
For the first time in over 50 years, 5th Ward parents may be able to send their children to a public neighborhood school nearby. Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a student assignment and school plan that would construct a K-8 school in Evanston’s historically Black 5th Ward. District 65.
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School/District 202 discussed expanding their shared literacy goal to include social-emotional learning during a Tuesday joint meeting. Assistant Superintendents of Curriculum and Instruction for District 65 and District 202 Stacy Beardsley and Pete Bavis gave updates on the literacy goal’s progress. The goal, established in 2014, aims.
African Americans experience double the number of life-threatening pregnancy-related complications compared to non-Hispanic white Americans. Chicago Volunteer Doulas is working to change that. “When we commit to doing antiracist birth work, we can produce antiracist outcomes,” Evanston resident and Executive Director of Chicago Volunteer Doulas Anya Tanyavutti said. “Our clients have defied the odds for.