The Wilmington Learning Collaborative is making the final touches to its nearly $16 million budget for this 2024-2025 school year. After already getting the budget approved, the group voted for amendments Tuesday night in three line items: expanded learning time, professional development and school leader recruitment and retention. Funds were decreased in the first two buckets and moved to school …
Another month, another chaotic meeting from Christina School District’s board of education. Wednesday night’s September board meeting had Naveed Baqir in the middle of drama, with a hefty discussion on if he should be removed from his position on the board. Board member Doug Manley made three different motions: one to refer Baqir’s residency to the Department of Elections to …
Hundreds of Wilmingtonians screamed the last name of a local legend in a “call and response” rhythm on the corner of East 7th and North Lombard streets Friday afternoon. Speakers screamed “Maur-ice” as the crowd howled “Pritch-ett” back to celebrate the opening of the first school in the city of Wilmington in five decades. Longtime Wilmington educator Maurice Pritchett Sr., …
A coalition of city of Wilmington elementary schools can tout growth in reading over the summer. In the Wilmington Learning Collaborative’s monthly meeting Tuesday night, Executive Director Laura Burgos presented the academic progress as a result of summer programming. The group contracted Reading Assist, a group contracted by the WLC that focuses on improving literacy rates, to help tutor students. …
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 …
At its first regular meeting since its 7-hour one in July that ended in the nonrenewal of Superintendent Dan Shelton’s contract, the Christina School District Board of Education was tumultuous once again. In Tuesday night’s meeting, two state legislators — Rep. Paul Baumbach, D-Newark and Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, D-Newark, — and Secretary of Education Mark Holodick, condemned the board …
The president of the tumultuous Christina School District Board of Education said a new – and free – training program from a state education group is much needed and very beneficial. “I’ve had this conversation with other legislators about bringing in organizations like School Board Partners to train our board members, and I think if you look at what’s going …
Some important Christina School District news has been somewhat lost in coverage of the momentous decision by the board of education to suspend Superintendent Dan Shelton. Christina board OKs work on middle schools The board approved a plan to renovate Kirk and Shue-Medill middle schools and build a new Gauger-Cobbs School and then demolish the old building, WDEL reported. The …
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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 …
