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The Green - June 19, 2020

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The 2019-2020 school year is in the books – a year thrown into disarray in March by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

School buildings closed forcing teachers and administrators across the board to rapidly ramp up remote learning strategies to keep teaching while kids stayed home.  

Earlier this spring, contributor Larry Nagengast reported on those efforts – and the initial successes and challenges that came with them.

This week, he checks back in with teachers around the state to see how what students learned – and what they learned.

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Delaware Public Media's Tom Byrne and contributor Larry Nagengast look back on the First State's remote learning efforts this spring.

Delaware’s Department of Correction recently announced in-person visitation at state prisons can resume at the end of the month.

Visitation was suspended in March as a precaution to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

But after an outbreak resulted in 148 cases and seven deaths among inmates, the state says only one inmate is still testing positive for the virus.

Delaware Public Media’s Nick Ciolino recently spoke with DOC Commissioner Claire DeMatteis about the steps taken to contain the virus in prisons, and preparations for a possible second wave of cases.

 

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Delaware Public Media's Nick Ciolino interviews Delaware Dept. of Correction Commissioner Claire DeMatties.

Juneteenth — celebrated on June 19— commemorates the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas got the news they were free, two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Delawareans have been celebrating it for decades and the state has recognized the holiday in state code since 2000.  But just this week Gov. John Carney declared it a holiday for state employees, after several other states did the same.

Delaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt talks with Sandy Clark and Sylvia Lewis-Harris of the Delaware Juneteenth Association about how the pandemic and the nationwide protests for racial justice have changed the holiday this year.

 

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Delaware Public Media's Sophia Schmidt interviews Sandy Clark and Sylvia Lewis-Harris of the Delaware Juneteenth Association,

The Ladybug Music Festival is going virtual this year amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Gable Music Ventures is behind the Ladybug Music Festival, which started in Wilmington in 2012 - then added a second event in Milford in 2018.

Gable Music Ventures CEO Gayle Dillman joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele on this week’s Arts Playlist to discuss the move online and the festival’s effort to raise money for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and Downtown Visions.

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Delaware Public Media's Kelli Steele interviews Gable Music Ventures CEO Gayle Dillman about this year's Ladybug Festival.

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