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Northwestern University and the University of Chicago both fell to a tie for ninth in the U.S. News 2027 Best Colleges rankings after the publication added a new graduate-earnings metric to its methodology.
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Thrive 65 leaders told dozens of Evanston residents to identify their priorities before Interim Superintendent Eric Witherspoon presents $20 million in District 65 budget cuts, including two school closures, at the Oct. 13 board meeting; three public input sessions at middle schools run Tuesday through Thursday this week.
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Alma Advisory Group CEO Monica Santana Rosen presented the superintendent search timeline to the District 65 board on Monday, Sept. 14, with community input sessions set for October and a hire expected by early 2027, as the district simultaneously confronts $20 million in planned budget cuts and more school closures.
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Third and fourth graders in Washington Elementary's Bilingual STEP program run a monthly coffee cart for staff, practicing math, communication and life skills.
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Northwestern University physicist Eric Dahl co-authored a study from the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment that recorded a single unexplained particle interaction with only a 0.5% chance of coming from a known source.
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Alpha School, an AI-powered private school network, has filed a zoning application to occupy the former Roycemore School building at 1200 Davis St. in Evanston, proposing only minor interior changes to the 111-year-old campus.
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Northwestern University placed a hold on Curricular Practical Training requests, blocking F-1 international students from work tied to elective coursework as the university reviews new federal guidance that narrowed CPT eligibility.
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The Music Institute of Chicago will launch RCM Smart Start, a research-based early childhood music program from the Royal Conservatory of Music, at its Evanston campus in September 2026, offering weekly classes for children from birth through age 5.
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Northwestern is eliminating the only two staff positions in its 78-year-old Program of African Studies and moving the program to the provost's office, a restructuring the administration calls renewal but faculty and alumni say could threaten the program's future.
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Northwestern University CIERA astrophysicist Tjitske Starkenburg co-authored a Nature study reporting the first globular cluster stellar stream ever found outside the Milky Way, a discovery that opens a new method for measuring dark matter in distant galaxies.
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The Evanston/Skokie District 65 board voted 6-1 to hire Alma Advisory Group, the most expensive of three finalists, to lead its superintendent search, with community outreach starting in September and a new leader expected to start July 1, 2027.
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PACE has reduced its student bus fare from $1 to 75 cents for ETHS riders, with the discount now applying all day, year-round, and including free PACE-to-CTA transfers funded through the new Northern Illinois Transit Authority.