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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.”
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Applications for a vacancy on the ETHS District 202 School Board are due by June 1.
The ETHS campus.
If you’ve always hankered to be a member of a local school board, but did not look forward to the agony and expense of participating in an election, there’s an opportunity awaiting you on the District 202 board that regulates the activities at Evanston Township High School.
As it turns out, only three of the four members whose terms expire this year ran for re-election, and no one new to the board qualified to run.
So at last night’s meeting, which featured the swearing-in of the board for the coming year, there was a vacant spot that the board needs to fill, and President Pat Savage-Williams announced the timetable for filling that vacancy.
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Just 46% have opted for new hybrid in-person option.
Even though Evanston Township High School students can return to the building for classes next month, a majority of students are choosing to stay at home for remote learning.
Superintendent Eric Witherspoon told the District 202 Board of Education Monday night that 46% of the high school’s 3,600-plus students have chosen the hybrid option, which includes both in-person classes and e-learning from home.
The rest, 54%, have decided to continue with fully remote education, which has been in effect since the coronavirus pandemic hit last March.
Families could choose either option. Witherspoon said a higher proportion of white students opted for in-person/hybrid than did students of color, although a specific breakdown of those numbers was not mentioned.