They kicked it down the road and will decide some time in the future.
Which is great! Given the uncertainty, now parents have to pay deposits for other camps to cover their bases and forfeit them if D65 votes to keep the program!
I think we can chalk this one up to Turner's incompetence. According to the Roundtable a bunch of parents showe…
They kicked it down the road and will decide some time in the future.
Which is great! Given the uncertainty, now parents have to pay deposits for other camps to cover their bases and forfeit them if D65 votes to keep the program!
I think we can chalk this one up to Turner's incompetence. According to the Roundtable a bunch of parents showed up to public comment and mentioned the obvious: raise the fees slightly. To which the board said, "hey, that sounds like a good idea, Turner run the numbers." As if it isn't the most obvious solution.
Turner should have been prepared with that scenario last night so they could put this to bed. Instead parents are going to have to scramble with the City camps, put down deposits and be out of money.
I guess I would say if the argument is that there are adequate city offerings that could replace D65 you would think they would align the decision time to occur before Evanston's registration.
We've known there has been an operating deficit for months. The savings numbers for axing the D65 camp probably haven't changed in months. Why couldn't they have had this wrapped up by December or early January?
They kicked it down the road and will decide some time in the future.
Which is great! Given the uncertainty, now parents have to pay deposits for other camps to cover their bases and forfeit them if D65 votes to keep the program!
I think we can chalk this one up to Turner's incompetence. According to the Roundtable a bunch of parents showed up to public comment and mentioned the obvious: raise the fees slightly. To which the board said, "hey, that sounds like a good idea, Turner run the numbers." As if it isn't the most obvious solution.
Turner should have been prepared with that scenario last night so they could put this to bed. Instead parents are going to have to scramble with the City camps, put down deposits and be out of money.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/01/28/district-65-board-approves-13-3-million-in-cuts-for-next-school-year/
To be fair, it wasn't brought to the board as an agenda item with a vote attached, it was just an informational item.
I guess I would say if the argument is that there are adequate city offerings that could replace D65 you would think they would align the decision time to occur before Evanston's registration.
We've known there has been an operating deficit for months. The savings numbers for axing the D65 camp probably haven't changed in months. Why couldn't they have had this wrapped up by December or early January?
I complained so much about this back in October that waiting until January took away all their optionality. They could've approved this all back then.