Board votes to close only bilingual school in north suburban Chicago district
EVANSTON , Ill. -- School district leaders in the northern suburbs on Monday voted to close a bilingual school, despite protests from parents.Families left in ears Monday night as the Evanston / Skokie School District 65 board voted to close the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies, at 3701 Davis St. in Skokie .Bessie Rhodes is the district's only fully bilingual K-8 school.
Currently, the district operates 18 schools â with a new one planned to open in Evanston's 5th Ward. The schools are all within 10 square miles of each other.Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Supt. Dr. Angel Turner said it is not efficient to keep all the schools open.
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