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Council introduces FY 2020 budget Aldermen push to finalize budget before end of year By JOSHUA IRVINE
daily senior staffer @maybejoshirvine
Aldermen introduced a host of ordinances Monday in a push to finalize the city’s 2020 budget before the end of the year. W ith only two City Council sessions remaining, aldermen moved to introduce several tax levies as well as an overall approval of the budget for fiscal year 2020. The latter ordinance includes several revisions implemented since the budget was first proposed, including reductions on projected parking ticket revenue and the movement of a quarter million dollars to a newly created reparations fund. Projected expenditures now sit at $321 million, up from $317 million in the original proposal. Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) pushed to suspend a proposed increase of
parking rates on Central Street, though it was shot down by council. Revelle had previously voiced concerns with the rate increase and suggested the decision would harm businesses and drive consumers to nearby Wilmette. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he had heard similar concerns from business owners in his ward, adding that it was unfair for City Council to prioritize certain business districts. Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) said she had also heard complaints from residents about the higher rates but balked when interim city manager Erika Storlie said eliminating the increase would cost the city up to $1.9 million. “ That ’s big,” Fleming said. “I don’t have a replacement for that.” A movement to remove the increase failed 7-2, with only Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) backing Revelle. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) criticized the city for “nickeland-diming” residents and said the council needed to » See BUDGET, page 6
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University of Massachusetts Prof. Thomas Stubblefield speaks during the Kaplan Institute’s fall keynote event. Stubblefield and O’Brien discussed how erasure of works of art can alter perceptions of history.
Scholars address memorialization Kaplan Institute fall keynote talks erasure of indigenous history By ANUSHUYA THAPA
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The erasure of and changes to monuments or works of art can change perceptions of history,
two scholars said Monday during the Kaplan Institute Fall Keynote event. University of Minnesota Prof. Jean O’Brien and University of Massachusetts Prof. Thomas Stubblefield presented their different yet overlapping works
regarding memorialization during the talk, held in Harris Hall. The event, co-hosted by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, was a part of the Multicultural Student
Association’s 30 Days of Indigenous programming through the month of November, which is Native American Heritage Month. D uring the keynote » See KAPLAN, page 6
Grad students optimistic for union ETHS reports NUGW reflects on three years of advocacy and unionization efforts racial disparities Recent data shows gaps in student achievement
By STEPHEN COUNCIL
daily senior staffer @stephencouncil
This is the second article in a series called “2020 Vision” which walks through the reflections and hopes student groups, administrators and others throughout Northwestern have on the past few years and upcoming new decade. In September, President Trump’s National Labor Relations Board proposed a rule that would strip graduate students of their right to unionize. University President Morton Schapiro has stated that unionization is “a bad move” that could harm the relationship between professors and graduate students. With these overarching forces at play, Northwestern University Graduate Workers is growing and pushing for unionization and recognition, all while attempting to hold the University accountable on individual issues that affect graduate students. Despite the federal agency’s long-anticipated proposal, there is hope for NUGW. Separate from the labor relations board, graduate unions can lobby for voluntary recognition from their schools. And while they
By SAMANTHA HANDLER
daily senior staffer @sn_handler
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Graduate students from Chicagoland schools march around the Federal Building last week. Entering the new decade, NUGW plans to continue to fight for union recognition.
attempt to build a critical mass of students, the organization has helped incite changes at Northwestern. “We have actually accomplished a lot in the last year,” said Anna Zalokostas, a thirdyear English graduate student.
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“The administration does take us quite seriously, even if they won’t recognize us. I think they’re a little bit scared of what we can accomplish.” NUGW successfully campaigned for five full years of guaranteed funding in 2017 and
took a prominent role in repealing a 2018 international student technology fee. This September, members protested a raised cost for outpatient mental health care from Northwestern’s health » See NUGW, page 6
A report on student achievement laid out continued racial disparities in student success, according to a Nov. 12 presentation to the Evanston Township High School District 202 school board. The report looked at data from the ETHS graduating class of 2019 to see which students met the standards set in the Illinois Every Student Succeeds Act. The ESSA uses four indicators to determine college and career readiness: a grade point average of 2.8 or greater, a 95 percent attendance rate, at least one English/language arts academic indicator and at least one mathematics indicator. For language arts, the state requires students to meet the requirements of one of four options: earn an A, B or C grade in an Advanced Placement English course; earn a 3 or higher on an AP exam; earn a reading and writing SAT
score of 480 or higher; or earn an ACT English subject score of at least 18 or an ACT reading subject score of at least 22. Pete Bavis, ETHS assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, said at the meeting that the issue with the English language arts indicator is that two of the four options are based on enrollment. In theory, ETHS could enroll all juniors in AP English to satisfy the benchmark, he said. “That’s very cynical. We would never do that,” Bavis said. “However, that’s what that indicator really privileges.” Carrie Levy, ETHS director of research, evaluation and assessment, said the report broke down the data by race to see which students met the benchmarks. For the class of 2019, 65 percent of students overall achieved a grade point average of at least 2.8; the average attendance rate across all four years was 92 percent; 78 percent of students met the math proficiency standard; and 65 percent met the English proficiency standard. But while white students » See D202, page 6
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