The regular level of the Freshman Humanities program at Evanston Township High School will be eliminated next year as “a way of moving students into more rigorous classes,” Superintendent Eric Witherspoon told the District 202 School Board and a room atypically packed with parents, teachers and community members on Feb. 11. “Next year, we will […]

By cutting $1.7 million from next year’s budget, District 202 administrators hope to avoid any more bloodletting for at least a few years. “We have anticipated another round of cuts to keep the budget balanced . . . but we have looked in every way we could to minimize the effect on the classroom and […]

Despite spending a significant amount of time debating testing issues at their recent joint meeting, the District 65 and 202 school boards managed to review some of the current efforts to increase inter-district cooperation and to ease the transition of students from eighth to ninth grades. The criteria used to place students into honors, mixed […]