School Behavioral Health Professionals to be Honored
The state will name its 2025 Delaware Behavioral Health Professional of the Year at a statewide celebration on Monday, May 19th. Delaware’s districts and the Delaware Charter School Network named local Behavioral Health Professionals of the Year for 2025. Following an application and interview process, one will be named the state honoree.
Delaware Wins Federal Grant to Support Cleaner School Buses
The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) has been awarded an $809,000 federal grant to purchase one propane and three electric school buses for the Colonial School District through the federal Clean School Bus Rebate Program. Nationally, these awards are part of the first $1 billion of a five-year, $5 billion program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, championed by Delaware’s Congressional delegation of Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) and signed into law by President Joe Biden in November 2021.
2023 Delaware Teacher of the Year to be Named Next Month
Twenty of the state’s top teachers will be honored at a celebration on Oct. 11, when one of them will be named Delaware’s 2023 Teacher of the Year. The candidates were nominated by their districts or the Delaware Charter Network during the 2022 calendar year because of their superior ability to inspire students with a love of learning, exemplary demonstration of professional traits and strong sense of dedication and devotion to teaching.
