The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education indicated at Monday’s board meeting that it was leaning toward closing three elementary schools — Lincolnwood and Kingsley, and either Washington or Dawes — as part of the district’s Structural Deficit Reduction Plan. However, district officials are still considering seven scenarios, including closing up to four schools. One of those could be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School.

The Board of Education did not make a final decision to close any schools at its board meeting, but used it to communicate with parents, students and community members the options it is considering to hoist the district out of years of financial deficits that almost took it to the brink of a state takeover last year. A decision could co

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