With Brandywine's vote, the WLC will have the 2023-2024 as a planning year, per the amendment.

WLC gets another planning year after Brandywine vote

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Wilmington Learning Collaborativeā€™s governing council got its wish and will now have an additional planning year after the final vote to amend the signed memorandum of understanding was approved Monday night. The collaborative, made up of nine city of Wilmington elementary schools across Christina, Red Clay and Brandywine school districts, was waiting on Brandywineā€™s board to approve the 2023-2024 …

Red Clay hasn't had a certificate of necessity approved by the state in over a decade.

Red Clay again to seek $289M from state for capital projects

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Red Clay Consolidated School District will once again ask the Department of Education for $289 million for maintenance and programs. The district has not been successful in having its request, called a certificate of necessity, filled for the past 11 years. In its board meeting Wednesday night, Superintendent Dorrell Green recommended asking for $289 million, and the board voted to …

Red Clay and Brandywine's school boards must approve the amendment for the planning period to be extended.

Christina first to OK extension of WLC planning period

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Christina School Districtā€™s board on Tuesday became the first to vote to extend the planning period for the Wilmington Learning Collaborative. Planning was supposed to have ended with the 2022-23 school year, but because it took a longer time than expected for the 15-person governing council to form, find an executive director and get school assessments moving, the board asked …

Saint Mark's esports center opened at the beginning of last school year.

Saint Markā€™s inspiring careers in gaming with esports center

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Video games are no longer just a source of entertainment, but a multibillion dollar industry that is becoming increasingly ingrained in schools with some students clamoring to pursue a career in the field.Ā  ā€œAlmost everyone in the world is connected to a video game somehow, on their mobile phone or on their console,ā€ said Chris Ruffini, esports manager at Saint …

Laura Burgos has been selected to be the executive director of the WLC.

‘Iā€™m ready to go’ says WLC’s first exec. director Burgos

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Itā€™s official: the Wilmington Learning Collaborative has finalized the contract for its executive director, Laura Burgos, who will sign sometime in the next few days. A special meeting was called for the agencyā€™s governing council Thursday, and after about an hour of its members meeting executively in private, the group publicly announced it had agreed to hire Burgos, who said …

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School board members question value of state associationĀ 

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

Some Delaware school district boards are questioning what they get from their membership in the Delaware School Boards Association. The cost of joining is not insignificant. In Caesar Rodney School Districtā€™s July board meeting, John Marinucci, former executive director of DSBA, said it would cost the district $10,500 per year to be part of the association, That includes a discount …

Laura Burgos and the WLC governing council are negotiating benefits and salary.

Contract delays to Learning Collabā€™s exec. director Burgos

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Wilmington Learning Collaborative still doesnā€™t have an executive director. Laura Burgos, who was tapped by the Collaborativeā€™s governing council to take over, has yet to sign her contract, the council was told Tuesday night. That detail was a bit surprising because in Brandywineā€™s school board meeting Monday, council chair the Rev. Shanika Perry ā€“ whoā€™s also a Brandywine board …

DelawareLive July 16

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review ā€“ July 16, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Weekā€™s Review Includes: Loop coalition: Finish walkable bike trail around Wilmington Delaware Shakespeareā€™s ā€˜Macbethā€™ comes to Rockwood this month DRBA details millions going to bridge, airport infrastructure Bodhi Kitchen opens in Rehoboth; My Sisterā€™s Fault reopens Wilm. city council adamantly refuses to censure Oliver Milford votes to decrease taxes for next year 4 local baseball stars find out their …

Red Clay's first cohort at WilmU will be in the fall.

Red Clay, Wilm U partner for program to create more teachers

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Red Clay Consolidated School District is joining forces with Wilmington University to combat the ongoing teacher shortage. District superintendent Dorrell Green told the board an exclusive partnership with Wilm U will create alternate paths for Red Clay workers to get their teacher certification. Ā The program will start this fall.Ā  ā€œAs we know, again, the teacher and educator shortage tends to …

Laura Burgos has been selected to be the executive director of the WLC.

After 6-month search, Learning Collab selects exec. director

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has finally selected an executive director.Ā  After a nationwide search that lasted more than six months, the board on Friday chose Laura Burgos, a career educator in the public, nonprofit and private sectors. ā€œThe WLC continues to establish itself as a non-profit corporate entity, and it is very important work,ā€ said Dan Shelton, a member of …