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The Illinois State Board of Education will require all public schools throughout the state to resume full in-person learning for all student attendance days this fall, with some exceptions for remote learning, the board unanimously decided Wednesday. Remote instruction will be made available for students not eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine and are under a quarantine order by a local public health department or the Illinois Department of Public Health. A formal declaration of full in-person fall learning will come from the state superintendent. Illinois schools are receiving over $7 billion in...

Community leaders discussed the movement to open a community school in Evanston’s 5th Ward during a virtual panel hosted by Evanston Public Library Thursday.  The ward has gone without a neighborhood school since the Foster School officially closed in 1979 when Evanston/Skokie School District 65 sold the building due to its desegregation plan. Currently, the ward’s nearly 700 students are assigned to five District 65 schools.  Six Evanston Township High School students from Emerge, a leadership and community development program, moderated the event — the second in a two part series ab...

Our School Board Is Under Attack for Putting Anti-Racist Education Into Action FatCamera / E+ / Getty Images In September 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting institutions that teach critical race theory. I took that personally. As an academic and as a school board president of a district that has taken on the moral and ethical work of educational racial equity, the tenets of critical race theory (rooted in decades of academic research and scholarship) have been foundational in our pursuit of ensuring access to high-quality educational opportunities for every child in our di...

Evanston Now Dewey, Washington and Willard schools will get the new principals. New D65 principals: Kimberly Watson, Dewey; Eliabeth Cardenas-Lopez, Washington, and Charmekia McCoy, Willard. The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board Monday night approved the hiring of three new principals and an assistant principal. The new principals are Kimberly Watson of Dewey Elementary School, Elizabeth Cardenas-Lopez of Washington Elementary School and Charmekia McCoy of Willard Elementary School. Teresa Quinn will be the new assistant principal at Dawes Elementary School. ...