EPL hosts discussion on Evanston's school segregation, 5th Ward school
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...
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