Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020

Registered for an AP Art Class Next Year?
All students who registered for AP Art: Drawing, 2-D, and 3-D Design, or AP Photography and Digital Design for next school year, please submit your digital portfolio by joining the AP Art 2020/2021 Portfolio Review Google Classroom. The class code is: wfn2yq5. Directions for how to submit your portfolio are posted under the Classwork tab. The portfolio review process is a required part of your registration for these courses. If you have any questions, please see your art art teacher, or contact Mrs. Hyken (khyken@d125.org) or Ms. Connolly (mbconnolly@d125.org). You will be submitting your portfolio digitally through Google Classroom, and it needs to be submitted no later than Friday, Feb. 21.

COLLEGE

All graduating seniors are invited to apply for scholarships through the Stevenson High School Foundation. More than 40 scholarships are available. Click here for more information. The application deadline is Feb. 4.

The Elyssa’s Mission Scholarship Program will be awarding up to $5,000 to juniors and seniors who have effectively applied the help-seeking technique ACT (Acknowledge, Care, Tell) for the benefit of themselves or a friend. Students can submit information as a narrative or as a work of art. The deadline to apply is March 20. Details and application at http://elyssasmission.org/scholarship-application/.

CLUBS

The Breakfast with Books Club is meeting at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday in the upper ILC. The club will be collecting books for children from birth to sixth-grade reading level, which will be donated to Bernie’s Book Bank. Please email jlopez@d125.org with any questions. All students are welcome! The only requirement is a love for reading.

ILLINOIS EDUCATION NEWS

Chicago’s declining population has left 145 district-run schools less than half-full. So far, leaders appear reluctant to spell out a plan for this large swath of schools that are severely underenrolled, even if campuses will soon cost the district even more to operate. A new five-year union contract introduces $1.5 billion in new costs, including the addition of a social worker and nurse at every school, and no clear plan for how to pay for them beyond Year One.

Some transgender and undocumented students have become the first to apply for college financial aid in Illinois under a new state law. The law providing a way for those students to apply for Illinois financial aid took effect Jan. 1, but Monday was the first day the program was operational. Previously, undocumented and some transgender students could not apply for state financial aid due to a technicality that prevented them from using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, program.

NATIONAL EDUCATION NEWS

Louisiana’s education superintendent announced Wednesday that he is stepping down in March. John White, who helped strengthen the role of charter schools, backed a taxpayer-funded tuition voucher program for private schools and oversaw overhauls of the state’s school accountability efforts, is in his eighth year as education chief.

Most U.S. university websites have ended in “.edu” since the dawn of the internet, but in recent years the number of domain name options has exploded. However, while many institutions are buying new domain names with extensions such as “.university,” “.college,” “.degree” and “.education,” few are actively using them. Colleges are purchasing the addresses simply to protect their brands and prevent third parties from snapping them up.