Evanston Consolidated Public Schools

I wrote a guest letter for the Evanston Roundtable, you should go read it over there and click some ads for them:

Guest essay: The case for a consolidated Evanston school district

My fundamental theorem is that having separate K-8 and High School districts is unsustainable for a variety of reasons including teacher compensation, the achievement gap, and administrative expansion/taxes.

I submitted this to the Evanston Roundtable because they’re more of a “paper of record” than this newsletter/blog is. I think the subject matter might ruffle some feathers, including your own. If so, please feel free to comment and tell me why I’m wrong. I learn the most from those comments.

And here’s a picture of a pretty yard in front of a house on Hinman. The rains have made everything so green lately and this part of Evanston still doesn’t have cicada infestations (yet). This house always has original native plant landscaping and in the spring is quite beautiful.