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Latest news from Evanston: Your Thursday daily digest
evanstonroundtable.com...The District 65 Finance Committee got an unpleasant financial surprise yesterday: Business Manager Kathy Zalewski (right) warned the district will... ...Transportation costs have increased, Chief Financial Officer Raphael Obafemi (left) said, “but we did not think it was going to build to this level... ...The Citizen Police Review Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to escalate a complaint to Police Chief Schenita Stewart's desk.... ...Both concepts include public restrooms, bike trails with an underpass beneath Emerson Street, playgrounds and North Shore Channel overlooks....

TEAACH Act–new focus on Asian American history
evanstonroundtable.com...When Paula Camaya and John Lee walked through the halls of Evanston Township High School as students, classrooms didn't prioritize Asian American... ...Spain and later the United States.... ...Gaps in public schools" history lessons led Asian Americans Advancing Justice to advocate for the TEAACH Act, said Grace Pai, executive director... ...Niles West High School highlighted the passage of the TEAACH Act, Lee said....

Les Jacobson: NU scholar shares lessons of Russian literature
evanstonroundtable.com...Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, is the author or co-author of 13 books (including two with former NU President... ...and short stories by such masters as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak.... ...His wit and insight are incomparable,” said Irwin Weil, professor emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Northwestern and... ...founder of the American Council of Teachers of Russian....

D65 data shows academic improvements, though math readiness ...
evanstonroundtable.com...Township High School this year.... ...from the pandemic still ongoing, math proficiency and growth for local students was a key area for improvement identified by both District 65 and Evanston... ...Township High School Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Pete Bavis said at a board meeting on Feb.... ...Oakton Elementary and Bessie Rhodes, two schools with high populations of Black and Hispanic students compared with the rest of the district, ended...

Citizen Police Review votes to escalate complaint to police chief
evanstonroundtable.com...The Citizen Police Review Commission unanimously voted June 7 to escalate a complaint about a 15-year-old bike rider struck by an off-duty officer"s... ...vehicle to Police Chief Schenita Stewart's desk after the police department found no rule violations three times in a row.... ...to school Oct. 28, 2021, on the Greenwood Street crosswalk at Ridge Avenue.... ...“This is clearly improper for you to have said that,” said Commissioner Juneitha Shambee at the commission"s Feb. 1 meeting....

D65 data shows academic improvements, though math readiness remains a concern
evanstonroundtable.com...Township High School this year.... ...from the pandemic still ongoing, math proficiency and growth for local students was a key area for improvement identified by both District 65 and Evanston... ...Township High School Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Pete Bavis said at a board meeting on Feb.... ...Oakton Elementary and Bessie Rhodes, two schools with high populations of Black and Hispanic students compared with the rest of the district, ended...

Announcement that District 65 will finish the year with a $3.4 million ...
evanstonroundtable.com...Kathy Zalewski, Business Manager of School District 65, advised the Board"s Finance Committee on June 7 that the District anticipates that it will... ...Zalewski said she estimates that the district's operating revenues for the year will be about $157.8 million, a little more than the budgeted amount... ...I mean, we have McKinney Vento [homeless] students. We have special education students.... ...Joey Hailpern, a Board member and Chair of the Finance Committee, asked when administrators first learned about the jump in transportation costs...

New Beck Park designs feature overlooks, playgrounds, bike trail ...
evanstonroundtable.com...MKSK, the firm managing the expansion, and city officials hosted the meeting at the ETHS TEAMS Transition House, 1742 Lemar Ave.... ...Some attendees were worried about the limited amount of parking on McDaniel Avenue.... ...Emerson Street south to Church Street.... ...At the March meeting community members viewed three potential designs for Beck Park, which runs along the east side of the North Shore Channel from...

Letter to the editor: Concerning Northwestern's commercial stadium ...
evanstonroundtable.com...A letter to the editor – and an open letter to the Ryans, Northwestern University President Michael Schill, the university board of trustees, Mayor... ...Daniel Biss and Evanston"s City Council members: NU"s mission statement could not be more sharply focused: “Northwestern is committed to excellent... ...Instead, the amendment – culminating in its demand for mega-concerts of greater capacity than Chicago"s United Center or New York"s Madison Square... ...John B. Austin, Seventh Ward resident...

How do I tell my therapist I'm ready to leave?
evanstonroundtable.com...How do I tell my therapist, who I like very much, that I am ready to leave? I'm worried that she may think I'm not ready.... ...And even though we all like to think that we are our therapist's favorite client, the goal of the therapist is to help you need her less. ... ...You"re a dear,” to, “Uncle Irving, I will gut you like a Lake Michigan Perch if you so much as whisper a political opinion during Bootsy"s wedding... ...If that's the case, then she can process those feelings with her therapist!...