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Earlier this year, Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s Head Start Program, an early childhood learning center, received a $230,000 grant to upgrade a diesel-fueled school bus to an electric one. The district received the grant from the state’s Driving a Cleaner Illinois Program, but the program did not receive more money to grow District 65’s electric...
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...
Huntley Unit District 158 recently announced a step forward in its commitment to green energy: the Illinois EPA has awarded over $4.2 million in grant funding to 15 school districts across the Chicago area which will go toward the purchase of electric buses.