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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


Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.  Community members spoke during Monday’s City Council meeting about their concerns for the priority-based budgeting survey.

Residents say budget survey endangers programs helping underprivileged communities

May 22, 2018

Community members at a City Council meeting Monday voiced their frustration over the priority-based budgeting survey and advocated for programs affecting underprivileged communities in Evanston. The...

Superintendent Paul Goren at Monday’s Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board meeting. Some board members and community members worried that District 65 wasn’t giving enough urgency to improving equity in early education programs.

District 65 board, community members criticize lack of movement on early education equity initiative

May 8, 2018

Some board members and community members expressed concern on Monday that Evanston/Skokie School District 65 isn’t showing enough initiative to increase equity in its early education programs. At...

Organization for Positive Action and Leadership president Roger Williams speaks about the lack of educational equity in Evanston. The group said suspensions of black students in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 significantly spiked this school year.

Community leaders: District 65 should better serve black students

April 11, 2018

Community members demanded that Evanston/Skokie School District 65 take more action to better serve black students at the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership’s Wednesday community meeting. According...

The Joseph E. Hill Education Center, 1500 McDaniel Ave. Community advocates with the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership on Monday demanded school board action to close the achievement gap in Evanston/Skokie School District 65.

Community organizers demand action to close District 65 achievement gap

October 23, 2017

Community organizers demanded Evanston/Skokie School District 65 take more action to close the achievement gap and better serve black students at an event Monday. The Organization for Positive Action...

Ald. Cicely Fleming. Fleming expressed her opposition of the adoption of the resolution to settle Shannon Lamaster v. City of Evanston et al.

Drawing from family roots, new alderman Cicely Fleming seeks to change Evanston’s path

July 17, 2017

It took Jerome Summers, the uncle of new alderman Cicely Fleming (9th), a while to list all of the notable Evanston politicians in Fleming’s family lineage — a lineage that dates back to the 1890s...

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