Delaware Wins Early Learning Challenge Grant!
We are pleased to announce that Delaware was selected as a recipient of the federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grant! Delaware is one of nine states to be awarded a grant out of 37 total applicants. The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly announced the winning applications on...
Delaware Submits Ambitious Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Application
On October 19, 2011 Delaware submitted an ambitious application for a roughly $50 million share of the $500 million federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) competitive grant. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Delaware was one of 35 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico to submit an application.
Delaware’s plan...
An Anniversary, a Conference, and a Lot of Work Ahead
This is a guest blog post by Marvin N. “Skip” Schoenhals, chairman of Vision 2015 and WSFS Bank in Wilmington, DE, for which he served as president and CEO from 1990 to 2007. He is a member of the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame.
Five years ago, Vision 2015 set out to transform the education that we were offering to our public school...