The board must balance spending concerns with current class-size guidelines.
The sole agenda of Monday night’s District 65 School Board meeting will be to tackle the imminent issues surrounding classroom capacity needs arising throughout the district. Billed as a preliminary discussion, the meeting will serve to rehash old ideas and information presented when the district was planning for its recently-failed bond issuance referendum, but will also act as a platform for board members to propose new approaches to solving capacity problems. The Problem Based on D65’s five-year enrollment projections -- created in early November to plan for future staffing requirements, space usage, transportation needs and other planning purposes -- the district grew by over 200 students this past year, will expand by another 100-plus…
Many were still upset the referendum to fund a new school did not pass in last week's vote.
Between pressing issues of insufficient classroom space and fallout from a defeated referendum, the District 65 School Board has its eyes on both the immediate future and recent past. In the first school board meeting since the board’s $48.2 million bond issuance referendum failed, taking down with it some residents’ hopes for a new 5th Ward school, passionate and sometimes contentious conversation concerning the March 20 vote bookended Monday night's session, held at the Joseph E. Hill Education Center. Get top Evanston headlines every morning by signing up for our free newsletter. Both citizens and board members took time to speak candidly about the vote, the referendum campaign and the proposed 5th Ward school. But while some were eager…
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11:25 am on Friday, October 5, 2012
You have to remember this same school board couldn't decide if it had a 4 million dollar deficit or a 1 million surplus just a few short monts ago more ›