With every new school year comes book reports, science experiments, math quizzes and report cards, and as students settle into their first week of school, Middletown resident Jonathon Peters offers a new option for parents with children who may be struggling.

    The Appoquinimink School District recently completed a year’s worth of interior renovations at Cedar Lane Elementary School that have given it a whole new look.

    It’s been nearly nine months since residents in the Appoquinimink School District overwhelmingly approved a referendum that will allow the district to build a brand-new elementary school and early childhood center near Odessa.
    Since passing the referendum, the district has set its sights on getting the buildings designed and coming up with specific ways the building can enhance 21st-century learning.

    Students from across the Appoquinimink School District learned about hard work and dedication this summer when they competed in the State Agriscience Fair at the Delaware State Fair in July.

    Some students at Appoquinimink High School will soon suit up and take on the title of cadet when they join the school’s first Junior ROTC program provided by the United States Army.

New regulations will give school districts greater leeway in establishing teacher tenure.

    The Appoquinimink School District saw declines in its reading and math scores this year when the 2010 Delaware Student Testing Program results were released recently.
    Nearly 85,000 Delaware students in second through 10th grade were tested for reading and math in March. There was no summer re-testing this year.

Wilmington Trust was recently named the Appoquinimink School District’s 2010 Outstanding Business Partner of the Year by the district’s Board of Education.

    The Appoquinimink Board of Education approved a preliminary fiscal year 2011 budget at its July 13 meeting, but not before discussion arose about the fact that the budget is not balanced this year.

Summer campers enrolled in the Digital Arts Academy at the Center for the Creative Arts in Yorklyn use state-of-the-art software to create the same kinds of animations featured in their favorite movies and video games.

    Inside St. Georges Technical High School June 30, sixth-grade students were hard at work changing tires, baking cakes, building toolboxes and searching for aquatic life in a nearby stream.

    With plans for a state-of-the-art aquatic center and environmental training facility in the works, the Appoquinimink School District has been looking for new ways to make their visions a reality, which is why they teamed up with local business leaders to create the Foundation for Appoquinimink Schools.

Delaware Technical & Community College will offer four hands-on culinary classes this summer at its Stanton Campus. The classes are designed for at-home chefs who want to try a new menu of dishes perfect for warm weather get-togethers with family or friends.

    Michael Scott, a freshman at Middletown High School, loves foreign politics and could one day see himself as a United States ambassador. That’s why on June 3, he was sitting in the Appoquinimink School District’s Parent/Teacher Training Center debating issues like the war in Afghanistan and renewable energy.

   The Appoquinimink School District Board of Education voted unanimously at its June 8 meeting to reduce the annual tax warrant by 1.93 cents for every $100 of assessed value on property.

Parents and teachers in the Appoquinimink School District packed the amphitheater outside Bunker Hill Elementary School for the first time June 3 to hear the tropical sounds of the Caribbean emanating from the stage.

  While fifth-grade students at Silver Lake Elementary School learn about the American Civil War this month, not all their lessons are coming out of history books.
 

Check out photos from Silver Lake Elementary School's Eco-Fair May 18.

Now through July 25, the Historic Odessa Foundation will present “With Needle and Thread: Hand Sewing Before Machines,” an exhibit of textile heirlooms from four colonial Odessa families.

    Walking by the Middletown High School band room in the past month, students and teachers were likely to hear the clangs and clashes of wooden drumsticks colliding with sheer metal as members of the school’s percussion ensemble practiced their latest piece.
    But this time it wasn’t the traditional steel drums, gong or marimba making the music; it was the sound of large aluminum trashcans.