Yes, except King Lab is in the 2nd Ward, so I am sure you'll see the Make The Fifth Ward Great Again people oppose the idea.
I must give the new school advocates some credit for framing the debate around City of Evanston Wards. You hear people repeat the falsehood that "The Fifth Ward is the only ward that doesn't have a school." (There is no school in the First Ward and nobody talks about that).
Of course the reality is that the ward boundaries are arbitrary, can change every decade after the Census, and have nothing to do with the school district.
It would have saved the taxpayers lots of money if the City of Evanston had just moved the 5th Ward boundaries--which end right now at Green Bay and McCormick-- a few hundred feet across Green Bay to include the Prairie/Lincoln/McCormick/Green Bay block. It wouldn't have added any population to the Fifth Ward, but the MTFWGA crowd would get two Fifth Ward schools overnight!
My kids have to go to a different ward to go to school and it means absolutely nothing.
Yes ... move the boundaries a little and voila, you have a Fifth Ward school (King Lab). And you've saved $40 million.
Yes, except King Lab is in the 2nd Ward, so I am sure you'll see the Make The Fifth Ward Great Again people oppose the idea.
I must give the new school advocates some credit for framing the debate around City of Evanston Wards. You hear people repeat the falsehood that "The Fifth Ward is the only ward that doesn't have a school." (There is no school in the First Ward and nobody talks about that).
Of course the reality is that the ward boundaries are arbitrary, can change every decade after the Census, and have nothing to do with the school district.
It would have saved the taxpayers lots of money if the City of Evanston had just moved the 5th Ward boundaries--which end right now at Green Bay and McCormick-- a few hundred feet across Green Bay to include the Prairie/Lincoln/McCormick/Green Bay block. It wouldn't have added any population to the Fifth Ward, but the MTFWGA crowd would get two Fifth Ward schools overnight!
My kids have to go to a different ward to go to school and it means absolutely nothing.