School Resource Officers took center stage at the Q&A session hosted on July 20 by Mayor Stephen Hagerty. Evanston Police Chief Demitrous Cook, Deputy Police Chiefs Aretha Barnes and Melissa Salucti, Officers Loyce Spells and Mario Miller, Evanston Township High School Assistant Superintendent/Principal Marcus Campbell, District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton and Northwestern University Police Chief […]
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District 202 School Board Reacts to Emails About Eliminating School Resource Officers
Administrators said SROs at ETHS have a different philosophy and role than do SROs at many other schools.
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Police and Policing in Evanston: A Discussion
The police killings of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and their reverberations across this country have brought Evanston Police Chief Demitrous Cook into the spotlight as a Black law enforcement official. In public forums this month and in a follow-up conversation with the RoundTable, Chief Cook talked […]
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A Brief Historical Overview of District 65’s Inclusion Program
The District 65 School Board adopted a full inclusion model in 2009. As time went on, though, in recognition that the District was required to provide a continuum of services and options to meet the individual needs of students with disabilities, the District began to offer more options in specialized settings. On Nov. 30, 2009, […]
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High Percentage of Students Entering ETHS Lack ‘Proficiency’ in Reading
Only about 30% of Black and Latinx students are entering ETHS proficient in reading.
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Meeting the 50th Percentile in Reading on MAP Does Not Equate to ‘Proficiency,’ According to both D65 and ETHS
Eighth-graders must meet MAP’s college ready scores in reading to be deemed “proficient” in literacy when they enter ETHS.
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School District 65 2019 Achievement Report: Big Drop in Students Who Are Kindergarten Ready, No Gains in College Readiness
At their Jan. 13 meeting, District 65 School Board members discussed the District’s 2019 Accountability and Achievement Report, which was presented to the Board that evening. One section of the report – a qualitative section – celebrated accomplishments of students, educators and principals and contributions by the community. The RoundTable reported on that section of […]
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Student Achievement Flat at ETHS, Little Good News
Significantly higher percentages of White students met at least two indicators of college readiness than Black and Latinx students in 2019.
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NWEA’s Expected Growth Targets Are Not Aligned With the Growth Students Need to Be on Track to College Readiness by 8th Grade
One goal of the District 65 School Board is to increase the percentage of its students who meet benchmarks that indicate a student is on track to college and career readiness. The benchmarks were identified by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) for the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test in a 2015 study “MAP College […]
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Developing a Segregated Town, 1900-1960
Evanston’s first African American residents arrived in the 1850s, and by 1880 there were approximately 125 African Americans in Evanston. The number grew to 737 in 1900. At that time, many of the African Americans in Evanston worked in domestic and personal service. With the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to […]