June 30, 2016
Delaware
Newsworks
Delaware State Univ. partnership benefits middle school boys
Delaware State University and Verizon have announced a partnership to help provide underserved minority middle school boys with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education in Delaware. Through a grant, Verizon will provide $400,000 over the next two years supporting a program where DSU faculty, with backgrounds in various STEM studies, will help mentor middle school students.
Sussex County Post
Beau Biden Foundation providing child abuse prevention training for IRSD administrators, teachers
Administrators and teachers in the Indian River School District will receive child sexual abuse prevention training this summer through a special program sponsored by the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children. Stewards of Children, the flagship program of the nonprofit organization Darkness to Light, teaches adults to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
Hiring fills Indian River director of business position
Indian River School District’s board of education has tapped a neighboring public school district for the district’s director of business position. After an approximate 90-minute executive session Monday night, the IRSD board of education voted 10-0 to offer the financial administrative position to Jan Steele, presently employed by the Delmar School District as its chief financial officer.
Techincal.ly Delaware
‘It’s the cruelest thing ever for a child’: One parent on the Delaware STEM Academy closure
Ronda Dougherty is scrambling to find a new school for her grandson to attend in the fall. She’s one of the families that enrolled for Delaware STEM Academy (DSA), a New Castle charter school that was shut down last week — before it even opened — due to a number of factors like low enrollment and questioned financial viability.
The Harrington Journal
Exchange students tell of cultural differences
Lake Forest High-School graduates and exchange students Mrunali Desai and Putu Cathay Varianthy say they will never forget their year in Felton, even while continuing their high school education in their home countries. “This year really doesn’t count for us,” 16-year- old Mrunali of India said.
The Middletown Transcript
Middletown student to meet President Obama
An outstanding teen from the Appoquinimink School District – Alexander Arellano of Middletown High School – will visit the White House and meet President Barack Obama in July as one of two state delegates to Boys Nation. Boys State is a week-long education program created by the American Legion.
The Milford Beacon
Intensive Learning Center gains SRO in Capital budget
Increased security, better recruitment and energy savings stand out in Capital School District’s preliminary 2016-17 budget. The $105 million spending plan was approved by the board of education at its June 15 meeting. According to Financial Director Sean Sokolowski, there are only small changes between this and last year.
The Rodel Foundation
What do budget cuts mean for students and schools?
Blog post by Melissa Hopkins, director of external affairs at the Rodel Foundation
The Joint Finance Committee has already made and continues to face difficult decisions this year—especially as revenue projections trend downward and significant gaps remain in our state budget. Some of these decisions involved education funds: some to new proposals in the governor’s budget, some to continue existing programs. What will these cuts mean to students and educators?
The digital difference
Blog post by Paul Herdman, ceo and president of the Rodel Foundation
Here in Delaware, when we talk about improving technology in the classroom, our minds and our conversations often go first to improving internet speeds or the tangible infrastructure—the wires, cables, towers—that carry those signals. But in some cases—like the CityBridge Foundation’s ‘Breakthrough Schools’ design contest in Washington, D.C.—innovation is treated as a fundamental principle behind school buildings and models.
National
Associated Press
Oklahoma teachers fight education cuts by winning elections
Inner-city high school English teacher Mickey Dollens was fed up with low pay and cuts to public education, so he decided to run for the state Legislature to fix the problem. Then the 28-year-old from Oklahoma City became a casualty of those cuts and was laid off. He has since become a poster boy for a movement of teachers, parents and other supporters of public education trying to elect candidates who will resist cuts imposed by majority Republicans.
Global Atlanta
Blocked from State Schools, 33 Georgia DREAMers to Attend Connecticut and Delaware Universities
A privately funded scholarship program is to underwrite the educations of 33 undocumented students from Georgia at two out-of-state universities. The Dream U.S. Opportunity Scholarship, the nation’s largest scholarship program for DREAmers — students who came to the U.S. as children and lack documentation — offered the annual scholarships to attend Eastern Connecticut State University and Delaware State University.
Idaho Education News
Teacher salaries increase by 2.1 percent, in first year of career ladder
Idaho teacher salaries went up by an average of $912, a 2.1 percent increase, under the first year of the state’s teacher career ladder. For 2015-16, Idaho’s average teacher salary was $45,117, according to an Idaho Education News analysis of salary data. A year earlier, the average came in at $44,205.
The Wall Street Journal
Education Department forgives $171 million in debt owed by former Corinthian students
The Obama administration has agreed to forgive $171 million in student debt held by former students of the defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc., the toll of a for-profit school boom that is likely to grow as the government continues to investigate schools accused of fraud. The report released Wednesday by the Education Department provides the most detailed accounting yet of the taxpayer cost of the collapse of Corinthian, once among the nation’s largest for-profit college chains.