Education

Due to rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the University of Delaware reinstates its indoor mask policy.

Highlands Elementary School in Wilmington is renamed Joseph E. Johnson, a Wilmington native who was a notable educator and civil rights champion who worked to desegregate Wilmington's schools.

The University of Delaware is raising tuition next school year.

Claymont High School, Howard High School, and Hockessin School #107C are now part of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, and considered National Park Service affiliated areas.

A bill that would end some charter schools' practices of giving preference to students who live within a 5-mile radius passed in Delaware's House of Representatives this week. The bill's sponsor says the preferences have excluded low-income students.

Delaware State University is filing a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Justice Department related to an April stop and search of a bus carrying its women’s lacrosse team.

Univ. of Delaware baseball coach Jim Sherman is in his final season as skipper for the Blue Hens.Sherman’s career highlights include more than 800 wins - over 600 of which came at UD – as well as multiple conference titles. But there is more to the longtime Blue Hen than what he accomplished on the diamond.And in this week’s Enlighten Me - UD senior and Delaware Public Media intern Patrick Laporte reports on the legacy of one of the state’s best known baseball coaches.

Pro-choice and pro-life activists gathered at the University of Delaware Thursday - reacting to the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Liberty County, Georgia sheriff dismissed allegations that his deputies displayed racial bias when they pulled over and searched a bus carrying the DSU women's lacrosse team in April.

School board elections drew more voters and candidates in some places this year, although turnout overall remains low - with no race seeing turnout higher than 8 percent.