Education

The Indian River School District is seeking recent retirees to serve as substitute teachers.

Gov. John Carney has spent the last two months pitching his “Wilmington Learning Collaborative.”He believes the plan will transform the city’s underperforming elementary and middle schools, in part because of similar reform initiatives he says have worked elsewhere – including Springfield, Massachusetts.This week, contributor Larry Nagengast takes a closer look at the Springfield Empowerment Zone – and how it might influence Carney’s proposal for Wilmington.

Pushing his Wilmington Learning Collaborative proposal, Gov. John Carney is urging three school boards that serve Wilmington students to endorse his plan no later than at their February meetings.

From time to time, we like to highlight work from student journalists at both the high school and college level.Delaware Public Media partners with McKean and Mount Pleasant High Schools in the Red Clay and Brandywine school districts, as well as Polytech High School in Kent County to expose students to radio journalism.And in this week’s Enlighten Me, we bring you recent stories from students in the radio career pathway at Mount Pleasant High.

Overnight snow means more changes for schools around the First State Friday.

Some school districts are struggling to keep enough staff healthy to continue in person learning.

Some school districts are still dealing with the fall-out from Monday’s winter storm and concerns about freezing rain Wednesday morning.

Kent and Sussex County took the brunt of Monday’s winter storm – and schools there are being affected again as they clean up.

First State students are getting an extra day of winter break.

For some kids, the breakfast and lunch they get at school are their only meals.But that doesn’t mean they go hungry over the holiday break.