Summer school once summoned images of unhappy students who had failed a class trudging off to classes to make them up while their friends played in pools. Not anymore. Schools now offer extensive summer programming for all ages meant to support the whole student academically, emotionally and socially while catching up or accelerating their learning to get ahead of the …
2023 Graduate Commencement — article & photos
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2023 Undergraduate Commencement — article & photos
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Sponsors, Meal Sites Sought for 2023 Summer Food Service Program
A program that targets children in low-income areas to ensure they have meals during the summer is seeking sponsors and meal sites for meal locations. The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is a federally funded program operated nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered in Delaware by the Department of Education (DDOE). […] The post Sponsors, Meal …
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 …
2023 Nurse Pinning Ceremony — Photos
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Capital’s Cade picked for presidential group on Black equity
Capital School District’s superintendent will represent Delaware on a presidential committee in Washington, D.C. Vilicia Cade has been appointed to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans. “I remain humbled and poised to serve our nation as a member of this prestigious advisory commission, and look forward to using my life experiences, …
William B. DeLauder EH Theatre naming ceremony held
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Student ‘mental health days’ bill among 5 on way to House
A busy day in the House Education Committee Wednesday – headlined by a law that would give students mental health days – ended with five bills sent to the full House. House Bill 3, sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, provides for excused absences for the mental or behavioral health of a student. It requires any student …
Bill would ban landlords from evicting tenants for crimes
A bill that would strip crime-free housing ordinances from Delaware sparked conversation about domestic abuse, racist motives and local control in the Senate Housing and Land Use Committee Wednesday. Senate Bill 99, sponsored by Sen. Marie Pinkney, D-New Castle, would ban municipal ordinances from requiring the eviction of tenants for criminal activity by a tenant, member of the tenant’s household …