Evanston/Skokie School District 65 will allow seventh and eighth grade students at the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies to finish classes there for the 2024-25 school year under a modified staffing plan, the district announced in a Friday email to parents. The decision supersedes District 65’s initial plan to transfer Bessie Rhodes’ seventh...| The Daily Northwestern
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education unanimously passed the district’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year with a $13 million deficit at its meeting Monday night. The board also heard about the district’s deficit reduction plan to combat this increase, presented by District 65 administrators. The plan aims to make the district’s operations...| The Daily Northwestern
Classroom sizes, transportation and declined enrollment dominated conversations at Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s three Structural Deficit Reduction Plan community input meetings on Jan. 15-17. The district held the meetings to gauge community priorities for Phase 2 of its SDRP, which seeks to eliminate the district’s current $13.2 million deficit. Superintendent Angel Turner presented the four...| The Daily Northwestern
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education heard four options for the district’s Structural Deficit Reduction Plan at its Committee of the Whole meeting Monday. The plan started in February 2024, when the district reduced its spending by $6.5 million for fiscal year 2025. The rest of the plan is made up of three...| The Daily Northwestern
In its next step to curb its looming deficit, the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education unanimously passed a $13.3 million spending reduction for fiscal year 2026 at its meeting Monday. The reduction is part of Phase 2 of the district’s Structural Deficit Reduction Plan to eliminate its $13.2 million deficit. The board heard...| The Daily Northwestern
