A year after being put on formal review by the state, Great Oaks Charter School has made strides in student achievement as it seeks to keep its doors open. In seven months of turnaround efforts, the Wilmington charter has: Reduced the number of suspensions by 20% Increased school testing participation rates increased by 21% Increased Math Smarter Balanced Assessment scores …
Delaware State University dropped from No. 2 to No. 3 in the U.S. News and World Report 2024 rankings of HBCUs, while continuing to remain in the top 5 of those public schools for the ninth year in a row. Delaware’s Historically Black College and University had risen into the No. 2 spot last year. It’s also listed this year …
Christmas came a couple months early for the teachers of Wilmingtonâs EastSide Charter School Thursday. School Chief Executive Officer Aaron Bass, the schoolâs eagle mascot and volunteers from Barclays popped into rooms rolling a speaker blasting âItâs the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,â as they dropped off gifts to 45 different classrooms. Teachers often make Amazon wish lists each …
Charter School of Wilmington once again was Delawareâs highest ranked public high school, according to the just-released U.S. News & World Report list. It didnât crack the top 100, though. It was listed at 112 in the country. Forty of the stateâs 59 public high schools were ranked, including eight charter schools, in the magazineâs list of 17,680 schools across …
For Ellie Alexander Poorman, attending Wilmington Friends School means much more than just education â it means family, and generations of it. The historic school, founded in 1748, is older than the country. Friends will start celebrating its 275th anniversary Sept. 5 when it opens its doors for the 2023-2024 school year. Poorman, 88, sent all four of her children …
Some Delaware school district boards are questioning what they get from their membership in the Delaware School Boards Association. The cost of joining is not insignificant. In Caesar Rodney School Districtâs July board meeting, John Marinucci, former executive director of DSBA, said it would cost the district $10,500 per year to be part of the association, That includes a discount …
Members of the Redding Consortium Monday night voted to approve a spending plan for the next fiscal year, which includes more than $16 million in operating funds and carryover funds left over from this previous budgets. The largest allocation $7,914,637 for outside school time services and in-school health services. These can be considered wraparound services, which help fill the gaps …
Read Aloud Delaware, a Wilmington nonprofit dedicated to helping young children be ready to learn to read in school, unveiled a new logo Tuesday designed to illustrate its new strategic plan. The new logo is a more polished version of its longtime symbol, featuring an adult and a child looking at a book. It was designed to illustrate the nonprofit’s …
This story was originally published in May 2022. Jahsha Tabronâs passion for English and literature exploded after reading Shakespeareâs âHamletâ and âMacbethâ in her 11th grade honors English class in the Bronx. Thirty years later, Tabron â who is Delawareâs Teacher of the Year for 2022 â leads her own English class at Brandywine High School. Tabron, whose lively and …
A handful of first-graders in a Woodbridge District school laughed and cheered Tuesday as they — in English — guessed what sorts of things can be found in a museum. The goal of the small-group session at Woodbridge Early Childhood Education Center, which serves a large portion of students learning English, is to build students’ vocabulary and help them comfortably …
