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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

A picture of a sign in Eggleston Park identifying it as a “food forest” with a map of available produce growing in the garden.

Evanston Grows builds a blooming community, combats food injustice through urban gardening

May 9, 2022

Left with 1,000 pounds of fresh produce from the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center gardens at the start of the pandemic, long-time gardener Jean Fies decided to distribute the leftovers to District 65...

A red-brick building with large, plated glass windows. Beneath one set of windows are a set of raised steel letters with the building name. A short green hedge borders the building in front of a sidewalk.

District 65 board elects Sergio Hernandez and Marquise Weatherspoon as next president, vice president

April 19, 2022

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education elected board members Sergio Hernandez and Marquise Weatherspoon to be its next president and vice president, respectively, during Monday’s meeting.  They...

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Education Center, located at 1500 McDaniel Ave. The building is tan with blocky frosted windows and a frame of greenery.

District 65 talks academic growth with new accelerated math curriculum

April 6, 2022

A new accelerated learning curriculum improved middle school math outcomes last year, but racial disparities in achievement persist, according to a Monday District 65 school board report.  Since 2021,...

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Education Center, located at 1500 McDaniel Ave. The building is tan with blocky frosted windows and a frame of greenery.

District 65 Academic Skills Centers improve grade level standards attainment, aim to expand

April 5, 2022

A new Evanston/Skokie District 65 program to bring individualized tutoring into the school day has seen success in the last year.  Launched in July 2021, Academic Skills Centers at District 65 schools...

An illustration of a timeline from March 2020 to December 2022 with cartoon germs and icons of masks and vaccines.

The Daily recounts two years of COVID-19 policy in Evanston

April 4, 2022

For the first time since 2020, Evanston residents have the option to shop and attend school entirely maskless. Today’s conditions are the result of over two years of drastic changes in public policy....

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