Two Delaware schools have been nationally recognized for closing the achievement gap and supporting the academic growth of all our students. Rehoboth Elementary School (Cape Henlopen School District) and Lake Forest South Elementary School (Lake Forest School District) have been named 2024 National Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Distinguished Schools for the success of their students. âWe are committed …
Get to know Delawareâs 2x poetry queen, Maiss Hussein
The back-to-back scholastic poetry champion won her most recent crown with a poem she says was way out of her comfort zone, but served as the perfect finale. A proud Palestinian, a powerful performer and a hopeful dentist with blooming curiosity, Hodgson Vo-Tech senior Maiss Husseinâs victory this year in the state Poetry Out Loud competition was just as sweet …
Hodgsonâs Maiss Hussein repeats as Delaware Poetry Out Loud champ
Maiss Hussein, a senior at Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Technical High School, is once again Delawareâs Poetry Out Loud winner. She went back-to-back, winning this yearâs competition at the Smyrna Opera House Thursday night with her rendition of “âHopeâ is the thing with feathersâ by Emily Dickinson. The poem reads: âHopeâ is the thing with feathers – That perches in …
Hodgson Vo-Tech breaks ground on new $217.5 million building
School and government leaders broke ground Friday on the new Hodgson Vocational Technical High School. The school is one of four in the New Castle County Vocational Technical School District, and its new home has a price tag of $217.5 million, with about 60% funded by the state and the remaining portion paid for by the district via tax dollars. …
NCCVT seeks $11.3 million for Hodgson High projects
New Castle County Vocational Technical School District is seeking $11,346,774.30 over the next two years to put towards one of the districtâs four schools. In the districtâs board meeting Monday night, two certificates of necessity were approved for submission for Hodgson Vocational Technical High School. Certificates of necessity are funding requests by districts, usually for capital projects and deferred maintenance …
Student arrest for gun, weed shows value of resource officers
A retired police officer and school resource officer who has decades of experience in law enforcement thinks an arrest at a Newark high school illustrates how important school safety operations are. Thursday morning, Delaware State Police arrested a 17-year-old male from New Castle for drug and gun offenses at Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Technical High School, part of the New …
Hodgsonâs Maiss Hussein wins 2023 Poetry Out Loud contest
Maiss Hussein took home this yearâs Delaware Poetry Out Loud crown Thursday night with her recitation of Tarfia Faizullahâs âThe Poem Youâve Been Waiting For.â âThe most exciting part of this night was seeing how everyone expresses their emotions so differently,â she said. âYou can look at the same poem and somebody’s looking at it so differently.â Itâs important to …
Delaware chef Reuben Dhanawade wows on Food Network
Reuben Dhanawade had a lot riding on dessert â namely a job offer from chefs Maneet Chauhan, Scott Conant and Chris Santos, the discerning â and often acerbic â judges on the Food Network’s “Desperately Seeking Sous Chef.” The five-part show is a special edition of “Chopped,” which asks chefs to make dishes from a mystery basket of ingredients. A chef …