City of Wilmington Schools Become Priority Schools
The Delaware Department of Education recently named six City of Wilmington Schools as “Priority Schools”: Bancroft Elementary; Bayard Middle; Stubbs Elementary; Warner Elementary; Shortlidge Academy; and Highlands Elementary.
These schools are located in the Christina and Red Clay Consolidated School Districts. Collectively, they serve...
September 17, 2014
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New Moyer leader: ‘Give us a chance’
When Maurice J. Moyer Academy's board named Kennan Dorsey the school's leader this summer, they were giving him a steep challenge. The school, which serves almost entirely students who are black and from inner-city, low-income families, had churned through three principals during...
September 16, 2014
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Delaware law expands reading help for students with disabilities
Recently, Governor Jack Markell signed Senate Bill 229, which will allow IEP student ages 7 and older, the opportunity to participate in reading intervention programs. Many students with an IEP (individualized education program), have a learning disability...
September 15, 2014
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Innovation needed
A letter to the editor by the Vision Coalition of Delaware Leadership Team
The leadership team of the Vision Coalition is responding to the Sept. 3 Letter to the Editor written by James Ursomarso, and others affiliated with the Caesar Rodney Institute. First, despite attempting to explain this to them...