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As the new school year begins, school districts across the state are struggling to fill teaching positions.Delaware took one step toward addressing the issue in this year’s state budget with a nine percent pay raise for teachers, but higher salaries are only part of the solution.Delaware Public Media’s Rachel Sawicki reports this week on why hiring teachers is so difficult and what’s being done to fill in the gaps.

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About 70,000 fans will watch the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off in this year’s Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The rest of us, roughly 100 million people, will watch the CBS broadcast or stream it, and that means Super Bowl commercials.For the second straight year, the average cost of a 30-second ad spot during the big game is $7 million, a price tag that guarantees an opportunity to reach by far the largest U.S. television audience of the year.In this edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon is joined by Steve Merino – Owner and Chief Creative Officer of the Wilmington-based ad agency Aloysius Butler and Clark – to learn more about Super Bowl commercials and what to expect this year.

Home sales in Delaware – buffeted by a variety of issues like low inventory and high interest rates – remain sluggish.So, if you are looking to buy or sell a home in the First State as the spring and summer approach, what can you expect?Contributor Eileen Dallabrida reports on home sales in Delaware and what’s driving them.

A task force began work last fall on examining the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association, or DIAA, following complaints about its handling of various issues, such as student transfers and coach contact with student-athletes out of season.But these individual issues have led to a larger question: is DIAA as it is currently constructed up to the challenge of governing the modern and evolving scholastic sports landscape?This week, Delaware Public Media’s Tom Byrne sits down with DIAA executive director David Baylor to discuss the issues that DIAA faces.

Next week, there’s an extra day tacked onto the end of February known as Leap Day; a necessary calendar quirk that pops up every four years.But just like every other day of the year, thousands of babies are born on Leap Day, which puts them in the unusual position of only having a birthday every four years.In this week’s edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Rachel Sawicki talks with some Delawareans about life as a Leap Day baby.

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More than a fifth of American adults say they often, or always, feel lonely or socially isolated.U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently said that solving our country’s isolation is one of our generation’s greatest challenges and that loneliness in America is a full-blown epidemic.But if loneliness is an epidemic, how do you treat it?Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon is joined this week by author and journalist Anna Goldfarb to learn more about the impact of social isolation.

Eunice LaFate has been an educator, writer, storyteller, and public speaker, among other things, but the one constant during her 40 years as a Wilmington resident has been her art.Born in Jamaica, LaFate is a self-taught artist whose works have revolved around her life, diversity, and cultural heritage. To celebrate her decades of work, LaFate is displaying her art as the featured artist at the Brandywine Holiday Festival of the Arts at the Chase Center in Wilmington on December 16 and 17.For this edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel spoke with LaFate about her work and life in Wilmington.

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