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Members of Evanston’s two school board have decided to keep their existing leaders for another year.
Anya Tanyavutti and Biz Lindsey-Ryan.
Members of Evanston’s two school board decided to keep their existing leaders for another year Monday night.
The Evanston/Skokie District 65 board re-elected Anya Tanyavutti as president and Biz Lindsay-Ryan as vice president. No other board members were nominated for the positions.
The Evanston Township High School board voted to retain Pat Savage-Williams as president and Monique Parsons as vice president.
The Evanston Township High School/District 202 Board of Education recognized a retiring board member and swore in the new board for the 2021-2022 school year on Monday in their first in-person meeting since the start of the pandemic.
Jude Laude, a member of the board since 2017, is retiring but plans to continue youth advocacy efforts in Evanston as director of programs at Youth Job Center.
Laude thanked the Evanston community and his colleagues and reflected on his time on the board.
“I grew up here as a first generation Haitian,” Laude said. “(My father) would sit at the kitchen table and say, ‘I’m not leaving you any money, but I’m gonna leave you my name,’ and one of the greatest honors for me in my life was when I ran for the board and I saw his name all over this town.”