Until the voters in Evanston make changes at the voting booth, the district will continue down this path of reckless spending, sketchy ethics, and dwindling academic achievement for all but the children of involved and likely affluent white parents. Who are also the voters in town. People in Evanston like to bandy about DEI terms in order to signal progressive/liberal virtue but clearly it is just all signal. The facts is that they don’t see the district as harming the academic prospects for *their* kids. Their kids’ teachers are probably great. So there is limited impetus for them to demand change. Their kids aren’t going to be stuck at some behemoth k-8 school full of underachievers and economically-challenged classmates and won’t potentially be exposed to any area criminal danger. So they think it is great for the maligned community that doesn’t have a neighborhood school. It’s like gun violence. Until Republican lawmakers start having their kids mowed down in school shootings or other public mass shootings, there will never be a reason for them to enact legislation to make it stop. Same with this school board and their seemingly hell-bent goal to ruin the district- they won’t get voted out until the people who cast most of the ballots in town are impacted enough to remember to vote before their flight to vacation departs. You get what you vote for, and this city has voted for this.
I would love to connect about what is happening at Lincoln Elementary School. Handful of tenured, exceptional rated teachers leaving this year for surrounding districts
Did all of these top positions go to former AUSL people at once due to just one school board hiring spree, or was this spread out over time as they hired former colleagues they knew and trusted? It's shocking to see so many hires from a program with very little success to justify their draconian methods.
Until the voters in Evanston make changes at the voting booth, the district will continue down this path of reckless spending, sketchy ethics, and dwindling academic achievement for all but the children of involved and likely affluent white parents. Who are also the voters in town. People in Evanston like to bandy about DEI terms in order to signal progressive/liberal virtue but clearly it is just all signal. The facts is that they don’t see the district as harming the academic prospects for *their* kids. Their kids’ teachers are probably great. So there is limited impetus for them to demand change. Their kids aren’t going to be stuck at some behemoth k-8 school full of underachievers and economically-challenged classmates and won’t potentially be exposed to any area criminal danger. So they think it is great for the maligned community that doesn’t have a neighborhood school. It’s like gun violence. Until Republican lawmakers start having their kids mowed down in school shootings or other public mass shootings, there will never be a reason for them to enact legislation to make it stop. Same with this school board and their seemingly hell-bent goal to ruin the district- they won’t get voted out until the people who cast most of the ballots in town are impacted enough to remember to vote before their flight to vacation departs. You get what you vote for, and this city has voted for this.
I would love to connect about what is happening at Lincoln Elementary School. Handful of tenured, exceptional rated teachers leaving this year for surrounding districts
Just saw that Oswego hired D65 Assistant Super Andalib Khelghati to be their superintendent.
Not surprisingly, Horton was hired by Oswego to conduct the search.
Not sure if he was an AUSL guy, but it is interesting to see Horton recruit D65 people to work for another district.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kendall-county-now/news/education/2023/06/15/evanstonskokie-school-district-administrator-picked-as-new-oswego-sd308-superintendent/
Did all of these top positions go to former AUSL people at once due to just one school board hiring spree, or was this spread out over time as they hired former colleagues they knew and trusted? It's shocking to see so many hires from a program with very little success to justify their draconian methods.