Hope Perry
Hope Perry is an education reporter at the Evanston RoundTable whose work is rooted in close, repeated coverage of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and how its leadership decisions play out over time. Her reporting keeps a tight focus on the concrete outcomes of those decisions, including contracts and separation agreements such as the district’s $191,000 exit payment to outgoing Superintendent Angel Turner. Alongside the local beat, she brings experience as a journalist, editor and audio engineer and has written about education issues for a university alumni magazine, giving her a broader perspective on how different school systems function.
District 65 leadership and decision-making
Perry’s core beat is District 65, and she spends much of her reporting time inside the district’s public proceedings and events. In a recent story on the district’s separation agreement with Superintendent Angel Turner, she reports that the board agreed to pay a $191,000 exit fee, putting exact numbers and terms at the center of the narrative rather than treating the leadership change as a purely political shift. Her public description of attending more than 25 District 65 events over the past year underlines a sustained, iterative approach to the beat, tracking how decisions accumulate rather than dropping in for isolated stories. The result is coverage that treats district leadership, contracts and transitions as an ongoing chain of actions that directly affect schools.
Money, contracts and accountability in schools
Perry’s work on the superintendent’s separation agreement shows a clear interest in the financial and contractual side of school governance, foregrounding the $191,000 payment and the exit terms instead of leaving them in the background. That emphasis on specific figures positions her as a reporter who follows how public money moves through the school system when leadership changes, and what that means for the district’s obligations and stability. Her membership in the data-focused journalism community IRE/NICAR further points to a professional commitment to precise, document-based reporting, even when covering a local education beat.
Education storytelling beyond the local beat
Outside her RoundTable reporting, Perry has written about education for a university alumni magazine, including coverage of a documentary examining schooling in Orthodox Jewish communities. That work extends her education focus beyond a single district, showing an interest in how different educational systems and cultural contexts shape students’ experiences. She also edits women’s basketball coverage for a sports publication, bringing editorial and audio skills to work that still sits adjacent to youth and campus life. Taken together, her portfolio combines a strong local K–12 beat with broader education storytelling, giving her the ability to connect district-level decisions in Evanston to wider debates about schooling and equity.
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