Seven of the state’s 19 school district superintendents testified in opposition to a bill that would allow teachers to take personal days without approval.Ā Senate Bill 61, sponsored by Laura Sturgeon, D-Hockessin and the education committee chair, would allow teachers and other school employees to use five sick days each year to take off for personal reasons, an increase from …
The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity wants to add the same kind of support and wraparound services that elementary schools get to middle and high schools that need them. Those services include before- and after- school programs, summer programs, interventions, tutoring, wellness centers, child care and other social services. The topic took up about a half-hour of the consortiumās Social …
William Penn High School will close the rest of the week to allow the Delaware State Police to investigate an incident Tuesday in which a gun was fired. Friday, Jan. 13th is a professional development day, so students were already scheduled to have the day off.Ā Classes wonāt be held virtually Wednesday or Thursday, and the Colonial School District has …
This story was originally published in November 2022. Colonial School District Superintendent Jeffrey D. Menzer unearthed a surprising fact while he was devising a method to track the effectiveness of a new focus on student reading skills and scores. The 2022 eighth graders who had been atĀ Colonial schoolsĀ since second grade scored higher on reading proficiency tests than those in eighth …
A Red Clay Consolidated School District committee will hire an independent group to test for lead in water at district schools. The Lead in Water Action Committee will work with Batta, an environmental lab company that conducts tests for lead in water. “At this time we are working with our community experts, our facilities and maintenance department, and Batta to …
A new education group will hold a multi-level event in Wilmington Saturday, Dec. 10, to help people find jobs in schools, register students for school and learn about public school options they may not know about. The ultimate goal for DE connectED ā the name of the group and the Saturday event at Wilmingtonās Riverfront Market ā is to make …
Even though the job of superintendent of education is one of the most powerful in a school district, many Delaware districts donāt perform annual reviews of theirs. āSome boards have a formal review, and some don’t,ā said Donald Patton, board member of Christina School District. He was a teacher and principal for decades before being elected in May. āHow do …
Schools up and down the First State are asking their school boards to allow them to put more than 22 students in elementary school classes. Boards have until Dec. 1 to submit waiver requests to the state Department of Education. The waivers are required by Delaware law for kindergarten through third grade students in the core academic subjects of English/Language …
Colonial School District is adding three electric buses and one propane-powered bus to its fleet, courtesy of an $809,000 federal grant awarded to the stateās Department of Education.Ā In addition to a quieter ride, electric and propane-powered buses are said to be more environmentally friendly than gasoline-powered ones because they release less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Colonial Superintendent Jeff …
The Delaware Library Consortium announced Tuesday that it will spend $1 million to add school libraries into the statewide catalog. The goal is to broaden the First Stateās library catalog and provide more students an opportunity to conduct research or read for pleasure. āOver the years it seems like everything around literacy has been tweaked except school libraries, until now,ā …
