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Evanston/Skokie District 65 School District is scheduled to reopen next month, while Evanston Township High School will remain remote. Both districts have been closed to in-person instruction for more than 10 months. (Shutterstock)
EVANSTON, IL Public elementary and middle schools in Evanston are scheduled to allow students to return next month for the first time since last March. Meanwhile, Evanston Township High School recently resumed some extracurricular activities, although the older students are set to stick with remote learning until further notice.
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton said Wednesday that the district would begin offering an option of a hybrid of remote and in-person learning starting Feb. 16.
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D65 sets another date for in-person schooling
Under new plan schools will stay open unless regional COVID positive rate tops 12%.
Washington Elementary School. (Google Maps)
For the fourth time since school began remotely in the fall, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 has set a date for resuming in-person classes.
The latest target, according to a letter to the community from Superintendent Devon Horton, is Feb. 16.
Previous targets were postponed due to the high coronavirus positivity rate in the area, and other COVID-related metrics such as hospital bed availability.
Horton says the decision to implement the hybrid model, in which some students will be in the building while others learn at home, was “not made hastily, nor as a result of political pressuring.”