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.”