DelawareLive Aug 13

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – August 13, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Review Includes: Media literacy standards discussed in State Board Capital Community Center: food, clothes, internet, more Avelo adds Puerto Rico, Sarasota flights from Wilmington Milford parents petition to loosen dress code ‘Under the Lights’ to celebrate Newark Charter’s Gore Stadium Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

The new Bancroft School will be renamed in September.

Bancroft School’s new name may be Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The first new school in Wilmington in 50 years is expected to officially receive its highly anticipated naming in September. The board announced Tuesday that the naming committee’s final recommendation for what is now known as Bancroft School is Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy, in honor of a former Bancroft principal. On Sept. 12, Christina’s school board will officially vote on …

DelawareLive May 28

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – May 28, 2023

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Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines New Hodgson Vo-tech building expects $80 million deficit First new Wilmington school in 50 years topped off with joy Commuter rail link between Newark and Perryville advances State retirees on Medicare to pay 5% more for Medicfill plan Culture Still work to do, say …

The Wilmington community celebrated the topping off of its first new school building in decades. (Jarek Rutz/Delaware LIVE News)

First new Wilmington school in 50 years topped off with joy 

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

Dozens of Wilmington elementary school students chanted “raise it up” and a drum team played while the ceremonial last beam on the first new city school in 50 years was lifted into place by a construction crane. The new $84 million Bancroft School in Christina School District, which will span several blocks in Wilmington, is expected to open for students …

DelawareLive Oct 9

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Oct. 9, 2022

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Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Supreme Court strikes down vote-by-mail, same-day registration Transparency advocates: Update FOIA for 21st century Sportsmen object to Jennings’ backing of gun purchase code Culture Hagley’s ‘Nation of Inventors’ to open Saturday, finally It’s raining bonsai at Longwood Gardens Business Forward Journey: Helping young severely …

A rendering of the new Bancroft School, which is expected to open its doors in fall 2024.

New Bancroft School under construction, may open fall ‘24 

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The new $84 million Bancroft School, which will span across several blocks in Wilmington, may be open for students by fall 2024. By then, said George Wicks, supervisor of facilities and planning for the Christina School District, the new building should be standing and the old one torn down. The old school, which serves grades one through eight, was built …