Evanston resident Janet Alexander Davis’ oldest son attended kindergarten at the Foster School in 1966. Because Foster was in their neighborhood, Davis would walk her son to school every day. But a year later, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 made Foster a magnet school. When her son started first grade, he had to be bussed to.
Staff at Evanston Public Library’s Robert Crown Center branch invited parents to talk about how to engage in climate change conversations with their children in an age-appropriate way at a webinar Wednesday evening. Genie Albina, Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s Earth Week Environmental Curriculum lead, led the discussion. She emphasized the importance of adjusting the conversation.
One group of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 parents hopes to make the schools greener from the top down. The District 65 Climate Actions team is a group of parents urging the district to ramp up its response to climate change by taking districtwide steps instead of relying on individual schools to create their own plans..