DelawareLive May 21

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – May 21, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Delaware still expects $963.5 surplus for 2024 budget School board elections: turnout low, but rising in places Revamped summer school lets students get ahead, stay active Culture Clifford Brown Jazz Fest releases lineup Darley House envisioned as home for Claymont entrepreneurs New York man …

Delaware schools have a wide array of summer programming.

Revamped summer school lets students get ahead, stay active

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

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 …

Through Delaware’s Migrant Education Program, migrant students are supported academically and socially.

Migrant students educated, supported in summer program

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Delaware Live, Education

Children of migrant workers who move to Delaware – whether from a different state or a different country – can spend the summer receiving educational and social emotional support through a state and federal program. Delaware’s Migrant Education Program is specifically for migrants whose parents work in agriculture and who have moved in the previous three years.  “It can be …