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Already $25M Overbudget, D65 Board Decides To Downsize 5th Ward School - Evanston, IL - District 65's planned 5th Ward school building will have one fewer floor, three fewer grades and 400 fewer students under the new framework.

Good Friday morning, Evanston. Here are the latest news and feature stories from around the city.

Good Tuesday morning, Evanston. Here are the latest news and feature stories from around the city.

With Evanston/Skokie School District 65 buildings in need of $189 million in repairs, according to a facilities assessment conducted by architect Cordogan

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education members acknowledged the victim of the Clark Street Beach shooting and discussed budget plans at their Monday evening meeting.  District 65 Board President Sergio Hernandez called for a moment of silence toward the beginning of the meeting for Jacquis Irby, the Skokie resident killed in the Clark Street...

The Evanston Land Use Commission answered questions regarding parking availability, traffic congestion and new green spaces for the proposed 5th Ward K-8 school at Wednesday’s public hearing meeting.  The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education voted unanimously last March to build a new school in the 5th Ward. It will be built next to...

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...

Like many school districts, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 transports its students, spread across 18 schools and nine wards, in diesel-fueled school buses. For local parents like Joey Hailpern, a District 65 Board of Education member and the chair of the board’s Finance Committee, this practice is concerning. “Two times a day, at the beginning of...

Evanston Now Financial consultant suggests construction of the new school could be funded with savings from reduced busing costs. Biz Lindsay Ryan. Leaders of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 indicated today that they may have found a way to finance a new 5th Ward school without going to the voters for a tax hike. A school in the historically Black neighborhood has been a goal in the district for years. The former Foster School there closed decades ago, and since then, the largely-minority s...

The June 3 meeting of the Joint Review Board to consider a recommendation on the Five-Fifths tax-increment financing (TIF) district attracted nearly twice