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WCPS outlines summer learning, facilities work and $55,000 in recent grants
Summary
District staff described planned summer learning programs for roughly 500 elementary students and other camps, detailed major summer facilities projects including Fruitland Primary groundbreaking and Mardela renovation work, and reported receiving three grants totaling over $55,000 and nearly $6.3 million in grant funding over the past year.
District administrators gave an overview of planned summer learning, facilities projects and recent grant activity during the June Board of Education meeting.
Dr. Briggs described summer learning offerings: two targeted elementary programs, "CRUISE" and "SOAR," will run Monday through Thursday, July 7July 30 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and participation will be by invitation based on assessment data with approximately 500 students invited. Dr. Briggs said CRUISE will be held at Prince Street Elementary for Prince, Chipman and Glenn Avenue clusters while SOAR will be at West Salisbury, Beaver Run and Fruitland Intermediate. Middle-school STEM camp at Salisbury Middle is planned with sessions of about 70 students, including a fifth-grade culinary chemistry week. Camp SLAM (career exploration/workforce readiness) was described as serving about 75 students at James M. Bennett High. Middle school summer school is scheduled at Choices Academy for about 175200 students; high school summer school will be held at James and Bennett with about 275 students expected and offerings including remediation and original-credit courses and ELL support.
Dr. Reger reviewed facilities projects for the summer. Major items listed included substantial completion of phase 4 of the Mardela High renovation (interior sections, new bus ramp and parking), groundbreaking for the Fruitland Primary replacement, multi-year roof replacements at Wicomico and Parkside High Schools, relocation of three relocatable classrooms to Pemberton and Glen Avenue elementaries, a two-room addition and four-room modular installation at Beaver Run to address prekindergarten enrollment, a sprinkler system and bus canopy at Lehi Avenue, media center renovation at Fruitland Intermediate, interior door and hardware replacement at Pinehurst and Chipman, restroom renovations at Shoemaker Complex and Parkside High, rooftop HVAC replacement at the y-high gym and fire alarm upgrades at Wicomico High. He also noted two technology projects: refreshing elementary laptops with Chromebooks and upgrading Windows PCs from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
On grants, Dr. Reger said the district received three grants in May totaling over $55,000: more than $46,000 from the Maryland State Department of Education's System of Professional Learning grant, $2,000 from the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore for the Fresh Start back-to-school program and $7,260 from the Community Foundation to Beaver Run for a book-fair literacy project. He said five grants totaling just under $1 million were submitted in May, including three $330,000 grants to MSDE for Judy Center funding. Over the past 12 months the district submitted 88 grants and saw 73 funded, yielding nearly $6.3 million in direct income.
Administrators said construction and preparation work will continue through the summer to prepare for more than 15,000 students in the fall.
Provenance and evidence
- Topic introduction excerpt (summer programming): "We're offering 2 targeted elementary academic programs this summer, cruising and soar... Monday through Thursday, July 7 through the 30 first from 8 until 02:30." (transcript around ~2506.895s). - Topic finish excerpt (grants summary): "Over the past 12 months, 88 grants were submitted and 73 were funded. This saw direct income to WCPS of nearly $6,300,000." (transcript around ~2817s).
