The News Journal (Delaware)
There’s no summer downtime for Terri Villa, principal of the new St. Georges Technical School near Middletown. She’s bouncing around the building getting ready for the 275 ninth-graders who’ll start Aug. 28.
Before the doors open, these freshmen already have jobs waiting for them.
While Delaware’s counties ponder how to expand and recruit an ethnically diverse medic corps, other places are well ahead in ideas and action. Delaware is starting to learn, and the St. Georges vocational school is the place to start.
St. Georges will offer the first training for emergency medical services at the high school level in this state. The school’s focus is on health careers, with concentrations in physical therapy, nursing and EMS to come in 11th and 12th grades as these first freshmen progress. ...
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