Weekend Reading: Other Evanston Newsletters
And an update to RIF (reduction in force) from the April 8, 2024 meeting.
Happy Saturday! I hope everyone had a good week and enjoyed staring into the Sun on Monday. My eyes are still kind of sore.
I thought I would take a weekend post to recommend other local writers.
Simone Larson is a District 65 Teacher and just posted a great op-ed in the Evanston Roundtable. She has a Substack and you can join her newsletter below!
Also, a Substack written by Sepehr Vakil, a Professor at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He’s also the faculty director of the Technology, Race, Ethics, and Equity in Education Lab. He’s a parent and Evanstonian.
April 8 RIF Update
This is an update to my post from earlier in the week, regarding an Reduction in Force that the District 65 Board voted on in the April 8, 2024 meeting. This resolution included two additional PE Teachers, one who is listed on the District’s annual compensation report as being on Sabbatical.
Anyway, the full list is available here. The list and document above won’t be online for very long, I don’t want to hurt anyone’s Google results. My understanding (I am still researching this) is that more folks were laid off but they were asked to resign first. More to come on this.
The interesting thing about these "reductions" is many of them still have rights to positions (certified staff). So an administrator who was previously in the district as a teacher or one that has been in the district for more than four years has rights to a teaching position. The except is if the administrator has a multi-year contract, which usually only applies to a superintendent. So the real questions because how much are they really reducing as many of these people have been in the district for more than four years.
"My understanding (I am still researching this) is that more folks were laid off but they were asked to resign first. More to come on this."
That's the go to move for scummy employers to get out of paying unemployment. Which tracks for D65.