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Evanston District to Model 2–4 School-closure Scenarios; board sets engagement timeline
Summary
District staff presented a draft school-closure scorecard and said they will bring 2–4-school scenarios to the Sept. 29 board packet, with community engagement in October and a revised October 27 board meeting to review public feedback.
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board’s Committee of the Whole on Monday discussed draft scorecards to guide possible school closures as part of the district’s Strategic Deficit Reduction Planning (SDRP). Staff said they will model closure scenarios affecting two to four elementary schools and bring scenario packets to the board on Sept. 29 for review, then hold a public engagement period in mid-October before returning to the board on Oct. 27.
District staff described two kinds of scorecards. Baseline scorecards compare each school across five weighted categories — equity, geography, building functionality, building income potential and financial impact — and normalize scores so the board can see which buildings would be “least impactful” to close. Scenario-specific scorecards recalculate geographic and transportation impacts for the cohort of schools in each closure scenario, tracking how many students would be reassigned, how many would exceed a 1.5-mile…
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