One of the state’s largest school districts will move its graduations off the University of Delaware’s campus after the arrest of one of its students.
The Christina school board moved to cut the commencement tie in a meeting this week — a roughly $98,000 price tag for the Bob Carpenter Center, parking lot and University of Delaware security annually. That security remains under scrutiny by the board after an 18-year-old student was arrested by university police on Newark High School’s graduation day.
Last month, Mohammed Sanogo crossed the stage as a 4.0 GPA student looking to study at the University of Maryland. “Less than an hour after graduation ended, our student was already bear-hugged, lifted up in the air and thrown on the ground face-first with two people sitting on him,” Naveed Baqir told his fellow school board members Tuesday night, describing the graduate’s arrest.
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