A 39-year-old physical education teacher at Colonial School District‘s George Read Middle School, Ricardo Vila, was arrested Monday morning on multiple charges after allegedly engaging in sexually explicit communications with an eighth-grade student at the school. The arrest follows a thorough investigation led by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, a law enforcement group spearheaded by the Delaware …
Six of the state’s 19 school districts – all in New Castle County – are partnering for an event at the end of March to help some of their students prepare for life after school. Families of students receiving special education services are invited to the 2025 Transition to Adult Life Fair, set to take place at Delaware Technical Community …
It’s probably not surprising, but the students and colleagues of 2025 Delaware Teacher of the Year Shelby Borst have nothing but fluttering positivity and appreciation when talking about the educator. “It’s really easy to be good in the class when you like the teacher, and Ms. Borst makes it so that any type of student would like her, even someone …
Delaware’s four most northern schools – which make up four of the six largest districts in the state – have data metrics that can tell a number of stories, all of which keep parents, teachers, administrators, and even students awake at night. One story is about absenteeism. Another is about resources, another about the challenges of special student populations, and …
WILMINGTON – A devastating knee injury sparked the creation of a sports health tech company that uses camera technology and movement analytics to measure muscle activity, physical performance, and knee injury risk. “My viewpoint of analyzing human movement was from actually experiencing an injury of my own – I got injured in college playing football, and tore every ligament in …
LaVante’ Dorsey spends many of her free days at Battery Park in New Castle, where she sets up a chair and a little table with a sign that says “Need to talk it out? Have a seat.” It’s the latest example of her dedication to civil and social service, coming on the heels of her winning the 2024 Minority Small …
During the first three years that nonprofit First State Educate has been at work in Delaware, it focused on finding school board candidates and supporting them in campaigns as a means to improve state education. While it remains the only state nonprofit to focus on building the capacity of school boards, the agency has begun to branch out. Now it: …
The reward for teaching for Shelby Borst comes from the looks on students’ faces when they learn something new. Borst, a social studies teacher at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District, got her own reward Tuesday night when she was named Delaware’s 2025 State Teacher of the Year. She’s also a teacher who has spent time boosting …
Delaware must decide to remodel its current house or build a completely new house. That’s the analogy used to describe needed changes to how the state funds its public schools by Michael Griffith, senior researcher and policy analyst at the Learning Policy Institute. He repeatedly used this mantra Thursday during the first formal meeting of the Public Education Funding Commission, …
The state’s education funding should have seven goals, a coalition of education leaders in Delaware said Thursday night during a virtual community meeting focused on student-centered funding. It was one of several webinars hosted by Vision Coalition, a public-private partnership of Delawareans working to improve public education. It includes education, community and legislative leaders. The coalition’s leadership developed the Vision …
