Before a room packed with unhappy parents and members of the District 65 teachers’ union, the board of education issued a statement on proposed cuts to fine arts, physical education and other staff members.
More than a hundred teachers, parents and students holding hand-drawn placards faced off against the District 65 board of education Monday night over a plan to cut fine arts and P.E. teachers while increasing the workload of others. “We need changes in district 65,” teacher’s union president Jean Luft told the board. “Teachers need reasonable workloads and adequate planning time.” Luft was among 40 people who signed up to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting, which was so packed that some people sat on the floor while others stood against the walls and spilled out into the hallway (watch video). The majority had come to show their opposition to the proposed budget cuts, which also include reductions to the number of …
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Dawes Elementary School was renovated by the National Education Association Student Program Tuesday after the school was selected for an Outreach to Teach program.
Evanston’s Dawes Elementary School hummed like a beehive Tuesday when near 400 National Education Association (NEA) volunteers spent the day revitalizing the aging building as part of the group’s 15th annual Outreach to Teach day. Over the course of seven hours, workers replaced 50 classroom countertops and 100 cabinet doors, assembled more than 40 pieces of new furniture, installed six plastic raised gardening beds, decorated about 30 bulletin boards, painted two murals in the school’s entryway, sanded down paneling throughout the school, repainted several rooms, and planted more than 75 flowers, plants, and trees scattered around the school’s garden and campus. Dawes was chosen from a small pool of Chicagoland schools to receive the near…
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Jim
12:28 am on Thursday, May 24, 2012
To Ms. Palen: No doubt that teaching in the Evanston public schools is a very tough job and that teachers deserve great respect and good salaries and benefits. Kudos to the teachers. However, the budgetary problem is in large measure caused by the expectation that the schools are supposed to solve all kinds of social problems both during class time and afterward. As someone said above, … more ›