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The Atlantic What Happens When a Slogan Becomes the Curriculum A curriculum inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement is spreading, raising questions about the line between education and indoctrination. March 14, 2021 Adam Maida / Bettmann / Getty / The Atlantic Last month, a public-school district that serves mostly elementary and middle-school students in Evanston, Illinois, held its third annual Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action—using a curriculum, created in collaboration with Black Lives Matter activists and the local teachers’ union, that introduces children as young as ...

Evanston Now First version was pulled last month over clarity and equity concerns. Irina Strelnikova/Shutterstock After stopping a community survey in its tracks last month “to re-evaluate for clarity and use of an equity lens,” as Superintendent Devon Horton said, the financially strapped Evanston/Skokie School District is once again asking for public input on future budget cuts. But this latest survey is different in several ways than the one which was “paused.” First of all, the new survey is in part a “School Finance 101” tutorial, with information a...

Evanston Now D65 Chief: Administration cuts are coming Superintendent says they will be included in $1.9 million budget reduction which also trims other employees and rearranges bus schedule for savings. Washington Elementary School. (Google Maps) The superintendent of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 says “there will be some administrative cuts” for the next school year. Devon Horton told the Board of Education Monday night that he is not at liberty to disclose those cuts now, but he is “looking to do some reorganization” for the coming school year in the...

Tracy Fulce-Gentle had a decision to make.  The 2nd Ward resident faced the same choice as thousands of families across Evanston/Skokie School District 65: Would she send her children back to school when the district resumed in-person learning?  On Feb. 18, nearly half the students attending schools across the district, which serves students in pre-K...

The ransacking of a board member’s car in January was the most visible episode in a pattern of harassment toward Evanston/Skokie School District 65 personnel that began shortly before the start of the school year.  Over the past several months, board members and administrators have received more than a dozen emails containing derogatory, racist and homophobic remarks toward leaders and students pertaining to the district’s announcement of priority groups for in-person learning. An anonymous individual also mailed to the district’s central office a half-dozen religious postcards of Bibl...