The Department of Education, Delaware State University and the University of Delaware requested millions of dollars from the state Friday for critical and minor capital projects. Leaders from the three bodies presented their requests to the Joint Capital Improvement Committee. Also known as the Bond Committee, itâs made up of six state representatives and six state senators who are responsible …
Appoquinimink school board candidates answered questions about transgender bathrooms, equity and inclusion, goals for the board and more Wednesday night. The districtâs school board hosted a question-and-answer session Wednesday night to allow families in the district to get to know candidates. Two of the four attended: Tim Johns, a pastor, and Ray Petkevis, a realtor. The other two candidates, Madeline …
Students from three Wilmington catholic schools spent eight hours on the dance floor last weekend to raise $243,791 for children in need. Salesianum School, Ursuline Academy and Padua Academy shattered their $175,000 fundraising goal by nearly $70,000 in this yearâs SALSTHON. âAt the beginning, I was worried about hitting our number,â said senior Jack Gormley, the student body president at …
Two months ago, fifth-grader Jeraniah Jackson joined the 150 students in Cape Henlopen School Districtâs mentoring program.  She had been disrespectful of teachers and generally not nice to people around her when someone suggested she consider the program. âItâs definitely helped,â said Jackson, who attends H.O. Brittingham Elementary in Milton. âI talk to my mentor about things that happen in …
Delaware Technical Community College is asking the state for $24,815,300 for next fiscal year in order to address critical capital needs. DelTech President Mark Brainard told the Joint Capital Improvement Committee in a hearing Tuesday that thereâs six projects that the college is prioritizing as âcritical,â which amount to a price tag of $19.8 million. Hereâs how DelTech would spend …
The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity wants to add the same kind of support and wraparound services that elementary schools get to middle and high schools that need them. Those services include before- and after- school programs, summer programs, interventions, tutoring, wellness centers, child care and other social services. The topic took up about a half-hour of the consortiumâs Social …
The list of school board candidates for the May 9 election has been finalized after delays caused by new background check regulations. 43 candidates will run for 23 vacancies across 16 school districts. Thatâs one less candidate than 2022âs 42 candidates competing for 19 open seats. State education groups had hoped that more people would run, but First State Education …
Delaware will have recommendations on how to improve their public school funding formula sometime this fall. Drew Atchison, senior researcher at the American Institutes for Research, shared the project timeline during an equity in education seminar Friday hosted by the Vision Coalition of Delaware, a public-private partnership composed of a broad range of Delawareans who work together to improve the …
Newark Charter High School junior Runyl Liu said her passion for science comes from a middle school jingle she heard. âWe heard this one song about the periodic table and I just really liked the song,â Liu said. âI sort of fell in love with the periodic table and all how chemistry works. It was a very, very odd journey, …
Appoquinimink School Districtâs vote this week to install weapon detectors is the latest move by Delaware schools to combat violence and the presence of guns. Itâs an issue thatâs plagued schools since fall, with the latest incident occurring Wednesday when a Sussex Central High School student was found with a firearm on school property. The student was taken into custody …
