Around 20 Evanston/Skokie District 65 parents attended a Two-Way Immersion program information session on Thursday at Dawes Elementary School. The event was led by D65’s Multilingual Program Director Amy Correa and Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Stacy Beardsley. The TWI program is a bilingual education program to help elementary school students develop language.
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Dewey, Washington and Willard schools will get the new principals.
New D65 principals: Kimberly Watson, Dewey; Eliabeth Cardenas-Lopez, Washington, and Charmekia McCoy, Willard.
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board Monday night approved the hiring of three new principals and an assistant principal.
The new principals are Kimberly Watson of Dewey Elementary School, Elizabeth Cardenas-Lopez of Washington Elementary School and Charmekia McCoy of Willard Elementary School.
Teresa Quinn will be the new assistant principal at Dawes Elementary School.
They all start their new positions on July 1.
Watson has 12 years of teaching experience and has served as an assistant principal for two International Baccalaureate schools, Prosser Career Academy and the Ogden International School of Chicago. Most recently she led Westchester Elementary School as part of City Schools of Decatur in Decatur, Georgia. She holds a doctorate in educational p
Biden Proposes Making Preschool Free for Children
May 11, 2021
FILE - Pre-kindergarten teacher Sarah McCarthy works with a student at Dawes Elementary in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, Pool)
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American President Joe Biden is making childcare and education a major concern of his administration.
In his first address to a joint session of Congress on April 29, Biden proposed a $1.8 trillion spending plan to expand government support for children, families and education. The plan, called American Families Plan, includes $200 billion for free pre-school for 3 and 4-year-olds.
The president said, “research shows when a young child goes to school not daycare they are far more likely to