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District 65 board leaders frame the superintendent vacancy as a "dream job" even as the district proposes $20 million in cuts and two school closures, with three community input sessions beginning Tuesday, Oct. 20.
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Evanston Township High School band and color guard members told ABC7 Chicago they were called racial and homophobic slurs and, in one case, spat on by New Trier fans during the Oct. 16 rivalry game at Ryan Field, prompting a public apology from New Trier Superintendent Peter Tragos at a Monday board meeting.
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A forensic accounting report presented at a District 65 board meeting details 438 policy-violating credit card charges by former Superintendent Devon Horton, widespread contract gaps, and a Foster School savings projection that was off by millions.
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ETHS and New Trier superintendents are jointly investigating reports that New Trier fans directed racist and homophobic slurs at the ETHS marching band during the Oct. 16 football game at New Ryan Field.
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The District 202 board approved a five-year capital improvement plan projecting nearly $4.9 million in funding shortfalls and heard Superintendent Marcus Campbell address the Oct. 9 handgun discovery and renewed discussion about metal detectors.
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As District 65 proposes closing Dewey and Lincolnwood elementary schools, families who already went through the Willard and Bessie Rhodes closures describe a difficult but survivable transition to Foster Elementary.
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President Mung Chiang announced the return of Northwestern's winter lights tradition on the Evanston campus, responding to a student government resolution and repeated feedback from his listening tour.
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International students at Northwestern University are calling on President Mung Chiang to speak out as federal policy changes restrict work training programs and a proposed $70,000 fee threatens post-graduation employment prospects.
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Northwestern's Faculty Senate voted 61-3 on Thursday to demand the university bar ICE and CBP agents from non-public campus spaces without a judicial warrant, citing constitutional protections and Evanston's Welcoming City Ordinance.
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and search firm Alma Advisory Group will hold three public gatherings Oct. 20-22 at Chute, Foster and Nichols schools so families, staff and community members can help shape the profile of the district's next superintendent.
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Parents and young children packed the District 65 board meeting Sept. 29 to advocate for the Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center as the district prepares to unveil $20 million in specific budget cuts, including possible school closures, at the Oct. 13 meeting.
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JEH Elementary School in Evanston opened an outdoor STEAM classroom funded by a Foundation 65 grant, giving nearly 300 students hands-on access to water walls, music stations and a mud kitchen built to close learning gaps for BIPOC and English language learners.