Dan Shelton, the ousted superintendent of the Christina School District – which has a divided and chaotic board – has lawyered up. Shelton has hired the Neuberger Firm to represent him after the board voted 4-3 in July to not renew his contract for the 2024-2025 school year, and then affirmed that in an August meeting. That July meeting lasted …
Dan Shelton, voted Delaware’s Superintendent of the Year just two years ago, has been booted from Christina School District. In a meeting that started 40 minutes late Tuesday night, lasted about seven hours and wrapped up right before 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, the board argued the night away and finally voted, 4-3, to put Shelton on administrative leave. Legally, board …
The Christina School District is set to ask the state for well over $150 million dollars this summer to help complete capital projects at all three levels: elementary, middle and high school. By Aug. 31, the district – the second largest in the state serving more than 13,000 students – will submit a certificate of necessity to the state Department …
A state agency aiming to rapidly improve education in the city of Wilmington has finally organized what measurables it will use to gauge success. The Wilmington Learning Collaborative, created in November 2022, oversees nine city elementary schools in the Brandywine, Christina and Red Clay Consolidated school districts. To reverse longstanding challenges to academic and social success, the collaborative seeks to …
In the Christina School District’s second town hall this school year Tuesday night, the handful of community members that showed up brought concerns of cell phone use, school bullying and test prep. The goal of the meetings is to allow Christina residents to interact with the district’s board of education. It’s a unique arrangement because in monthly meetings, the board …
The new head of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative pushed back Tuesday night on suggestions that the new agency expand to include more city elementary schools. “This is a long journey, this is going to take many years to get our schools where they need to be,” said Laura Burgos, the group’s executive director. That’s not going to happen by adding …
Christina School District held a community town hall Tuesday night to allow parents, district staff and students to ask questions and share concerns with the school board. This was the first town hall the school board had held in two years. “We want to know the good things that are going on in the district, we want to know the …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has proposed a way to spend the $10 million it will get from the state next year as the effort to improve educational and societal outcomes for the Wilmington students ramps up. The group’s governing council voted to approve the budget Tuesday night, and it will now head to the Department of Education for approval before …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has narrowed the search for an executive director to two finalists after months of appealing for applications and then sifting through more than 100 candidates. Dr. Laura Burgos and Dr. Edward Ryans are the finalists for the job, said council member Alethea Smith-Tucker during the Thursday night meeting of the collaborative’s governing council meeting. The Wilmington …
The council of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative will ask the three participating districts to amend their memorandum of understanding to extend the council’s planning period. “We’ve got one shot at this,” said councilman Lincoln Hohler, who is Brandywine School District’s superintendent. “We can’t come back to the community with another failed initiative and say we want to reboot, we get …
