Christina School District

The 'Christina School District' is a Delaware public school district located primarily in the Newark area, although a non-contiguous section of Wilmington is also included. The was created on July 1, 1981, from the New Castle County School District.[1] Its administrative offices were formerly housed in the Old Newark Comprehensive School.

Lillian M. Lowery served as Superintendent of the Christina School District from 2006 until her appointment as Secretary of the Delaware Department of Education in 2009, and was subsequently appointed as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education in 2012.[2][3]

Schools

High Schools

Middle Schools

Elementary Schools

Preschools

Special Schools

Controversy

The District has been criticized for its strict interpretation of its “no weapons” policy. In 2009 it suspended a six-year-old for taking a Cub Scout camping utensil to school and wanted to send the child to its alternative placement school for 45 days as punishment.[4] In 2007 the District expelled a seventh-grade girl for using a utility knife to cut windows out of a paper house for a class project. In 2011, a seventh grader was suspended and almost expelled for dying her hair.

References

  1. ↑ Delaware Public Archives. State of Delaware http://archives.delaware.gov/collections/aghist/8184.shtml. Retrieved 19 May 2017. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Lillian M. Lowery-State Superintendent of Schools-State Department of Education (Maryland Manual On-Line)
  3. ↑ Lillian M. Lowery-Superintendent's Biography-Maryland State Department of Education. Archived June 16, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Urbina, Ian (October 11, 2009). "It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon?". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
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