Evanston Township High School and its Alumni Association honored four graduates with the Distinguished Alumni Award on Dec. 6th, 2010 at an assembly for the ETHS senior class and at […]
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Guest Essay: PTA Council Task Force Addresses State Funding Mess
The Evanston/Skokie PTA Council’s Legislative Task Force consists of Board members, administrators and teachers’ union representatives from both School Districts 65 and 202, as well as community members interested in […]
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Guest Essay; The Concept of College Readiness
The year 2011 finds school districts across the country in a transition involving standards of excellence in a new era of educational reform. This national conversation is being defined by […]
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Kingsley Students Get Involved With Community
This holiday season, students at Kingsley Elementary School made holiday cards for Evanston’s elderly residents living at area retirement homes. The project, led by school social worker Allison Harned, took […]
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A History of Foster School and Desegregation in School District 65
In 1960, there were approximately 11,000 students in the District’s schools, 22% of whom were African American. At that time, most of the District’s elementary schools were segregated. The percentage […]
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History of the 60% Guideline and Other Measures to Racially Balance District 65 Schools
Since adopting a desegregation plan in 1966, School District 65 has used three guidelines in determining how to racially balance its schools: “reasonable integration” in the 1960s; a State-mandated […]
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Guest Essay: Foundation 65
Evanston is an amazing community full of people who care deeply about the world around them and the people in it. One of the fundamentals of this strong community is […]
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District 202 School Board Unanimously Approves Proposal to ‘Restructure the Freshman Experience’
Freshmen who enter Evanston Township High School in the fall of 2011 reading at grade level and above will now be assigned to a single level of Humanities class. It […]
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D65 Approves Tax Levy of $89.9 Million
On Dec. 13, the District 65 School Board approved a property tax levy for the 2010 property tax year in the amount of $89,943,010, a 2.22% increase over the previous […]
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Guest Essay: ETHS Expands Honors Opportunities to More Freshman
The Evanston Township High School District 202 School Board recently voted unanimously to restructure the freshman educational experience at ETHS so that more freshmen will be in challenging classes with […]