This Week’s Top Stories Include Christiana Care house staff becomes first to unionize in DE, 2nd pool of docs What to know about UD’s move to Conference USA this July EastSide Charter unveils long-awaited, $27M Chemours STEM Hub Wilmington City Council to launch Office of Educational Advocacy Comedian, podcaster John Poveromo coming to Candlelight Jan. 23 WilmU softball team wins …
EastSide unveils long-awaited, $27M Chemours STEM Hub
WILMINGTON – EastSide Charter School unveiled a new STEM hub Monday with the goal of creating job opportunities for underrepresented children, training Delaware adults, and creating a love and passion for math and science. Named the Chemours STEM Hub after the lead donor – $4 million from Chemours – other funding sources include $1 million from Barclays US Consumer Bank, …
EastSide students met with crowd of cheers for 1st day
One of the songs blasting on the speakers to bring the energy to EastSide Charter School’s students as they embark on their first day of school Tuesday was “I Can” by musical legend Nas. Widely-considered one of the best lyricists of all time, Nas wrote the chorus: “I know I can (I know I can), Be what I wanna be …
School climate group stresses engagement, funding
As Delaware students head back to school, a state task force dedicated to keeping their environment positive had a major focus on family engagement and funding. The 24-member Student Behavior and School Climate Task Force, made of government and educational officials as well as school behavioral specialists and resource officers, first heard a presentation from Kendall Massett, executive director of …
Music, dancing, praise: Joyous start to new Kingswood Center
They called it a ground-breaking for the new Kingswood Community Center, but it was more of a joyous love-in. Love for the 83-year-old institution, love for those who founded and ran it, love for those who expanded its scope to serve residents from childbirth to senior citizens, love for those who acted on faith that they could transform the neighborhood …
$3 million pilot program to find, train people for STEM jobs
A new 3-year pilot program bolstered by federal and state money will recruit and train Delawareans in STEM skills needed for basic laboratory and advanced biomanufacturing jobs. The move is part of a state focus on training a workforce for the future, partly to attract and keep the kind of STEM-related businesses expected to grow and provide more jobs in …
$26.5 Million EastSide STEM hub to open in 1 year
Those passing the crossroads of North Claymont Street and Todds Lane in the Riverside neighborhood of Wilmington this past year have probably noticed a fleet of excavators, metal beams, and lots and lots of dirt. That’s because EastSide Charter School is making significant progress on its construction of a new $26.5 million hub for Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). …
Barclays fills EastSide teachers’ Amazon classroom wish lists
Christmas came a couple months early for the teachers of Wilmington’s EastSide Charter School Thursday. School Chief Executive Officer Aaron Bass, the school’s eagle mascot and volunteers from Barclays popped into rooms rolling a speaker blasting “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” as they dropped off gifts to 45 different classrooms. Teachers often make Amazon wish lists each …
Students treated like celebs at EastSide’s first day
The students of EastSide Charter School were welcomed back Tuesday morning by a crowd of school and community leaders, government officials, Wilmington police and the mascot of the Delaware Blue Coats. As the students entered the building through what felt like a red carpet runway pulsing with upbeat music, they were greeted with fist bumps, high fives, hugs, words of …
Marriage proposal caps teacher appreciation week
EastSide Charter School teacher Sinead Johnson thought she was being brought into the auditorium Friday to receive an award to cap off teacher appreciation week. Instead, in front of her first-grade class and about 30 family members and friends, her boyfriend Keith Rawlings Brown got down on one knee, held out a diamond ring and proposed. Tears of joy bolted …
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