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President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan March 11 in the Oval Office. It included $122 billion for schools, with Illinois schools districts set to receive $7 billion. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
HIGHLAND PARK, IL Public school districts serving Highland Park are set to receive nearly $4 million from the American Rescue Plan, or ARP, the $1.9 trillion economic relief package signed into law last month by President Joe Biden.
North Shore School District 112 is due to receive more than $2.9 million in additional funding, while Township High School District 113 will receive nearly $986,000.
The district-level federal funding allocations announced this week come from the third portion of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief program, dubbed ESSER III.
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Districts 65 and 202 to receive millions in COVID-19 federal aid relief
April 1, 2021
Illinois K-12 school districts will receive $7 billion in federal funding to support students as they return to in-person learning, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced in a Wednesday news release.
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School/School District 202 are expected to receive nearly $10.6 million and $3.7 million in funding respectively, according to a spreadsheet accompanying the news release. The funding comes through the American Rescue Plan and will be disbursed over the next three years.
“I’m committed to making sure that Illinois leads the nation in assisting schools to make this new $7 billion count over the next several years to overcome the pandemic’s effects on our students, parents and educators,” Pritzker said in the release.
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Current Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board vice president and school board candidate Elisabeth “Biz” Lindsay-Ryan began her term in 2019 as the district unveiled its first LGBTQ+ Equity Week. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, inclusivity is an issue close to Lindsay-Ryan’s heart, and she said the week was an important step toward progress and inclusion.
The creation of the Equity Week first came after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a 2019 bill mandating the inclusion of LGBTQ+ history into all public schools by 2020. Now, two years later, the district is creating an LGBTQ+-inclusive Social Studies curriculum.
The curriculum involves nine equity components informed by the Illinois State Board of Education’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, and is slated to be released in June. To many, the curriculum may indicate progress but even the implementation of an LGBTQ+ Equity Week received some criticism.