September 17, 2015
Delaware News
The News Journal
Amid education conflict, coalition seeks consensus
On many issues, education in Delaware has become a battleground, but there are still some issues for which most people agree progress can be made. At least that’s what the Vision Coalition, a group of leading school, nonprofit, government and business leaders believes. The group released a 10-year plan Wednesday, School Success 2025, that its leaders hope can “cut through the noise” and provide a stable, long-term path toward world-class schools.
The student voice, the only one that matters
Opinion by Halim Hamroun, senior at Newark High School
In 2014, I connected with the Vision Coalition of Delaware, as it was developing its 10-year Student Success 2025 improvement plan. I attended a student “town hall” in Wilmington, where I not only learned more about the program, but the program learned more about me. Although it was organized and run by the coalition, the bulk of discussion came from the students, with a focus on our input, our experiences, and our thoughts.
Newsworks
Education group presents vision for Delaware schools
Delaware should expand early childhood education, embrace personalized learning, and update its school funding formula, according to a new plan released Wednesday by an influential group of education advocates. The plan—dubbed “Student Success 2025″—establishes a 10-year blueprint for Delaware’s public schools. It comes nine years after Vision 2015, a similar effort that helped shape the First State’s current education reform agenda. The team that helped craft the plan, known as the Vision Coalition, includes Delaware’s outgoing secretary of education, the president of the state’s teacher’s union, locals superintendents, business leaders, and other prominent community members
Delaware First Media
State coalition unveils new 10-year education reform plan
Education policymakers in Delaware unveiled a new 10-year plan to help students get more out of public school with flexible funding and a focus on college and career from a young age. The biggest difference between this plan and the one the Vision Coalition of Delaware wrote for 2015 is student input. The Coalition talked to thousands of Delaware students to develop the Student Success 2025 plan – hoping it’ll reform the state’s system in a way that prepares kids for a changing world.
WDEL
Culinary program at William Penn ‘reinvents’ high school
Part 2 of Amy Cherry’s four-part series on the Student Success 2025 plan
One success story from the last decade is the state’s Pathways to Prosperity initiative that’s “reinvented” high school. The program falls under the Student Success 2025’s plan as “Postsecondary Success”–an accomplishment touted by the Vision Coalition over the last decade. The report said, for too many, meaningful employment isn’t within reach. To accomplish those goals, schools have to “reinvent” high school.
Technical.ly Delaware
DelaCORE wants to be a positive force for education in Wilmington
Taking hard-earned lessons from the launch of PhillyCORE Leaders, DelaCORE was founded with a similar mission: to create a forum for Delawareans to engage on educational issues.
Delaware State News
Caesar Rodney schools set special events for the district’s 100th year
Caesar Rodney School District reached an epic milestone with the start of the 2015-16 school year: It’s been providing education for a full century.
Cape Gazette
Sussex Academy celebrates building improvements
A $2.5 million loan has helped Sussex Academy finish an otherwise unusable interior space into a cafeteria, theater stage and library. School leaders and dignitaries celebrated the school’s latest improvements Sept. 3 in the recently completed cafeteria.
National News
Inside Higher Ed
The new college scorecard
The Obama administration over the weekend unveiled the revamped college information website it created instead of its original plan to rate colleges, releasing a trove of new federal data about the nation’s colleges and universities.
Education Week
Federal judge rejects La. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s bid to block Common Core
A federal judge has rejected Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s quest to get the Common Core State Standards blocked on a national basis, stating in her rejection of the governor’s quest for a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that the standards don’t represent an improper intrusion into education by Washington.
One year later, Ferguson schools poised for change
A year after a police shooting set off racially charged protests in Ferguson, Mo., the school system and its new superintendent are looking to correct educational disparities and “give kids a voice” in determining their future.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ferguson Commission priorities set. What’s next?
The Ferguson Commission has delivered its report, but it has not completed its work. As co-chair Starsky Wilson said Monday, “it gets tougher” from here. The group has meetings set through the end of the year, and next week will begin seeking help to carry out its vision for the St. Louis region. These are the commission’s signature priorities, which includes keeping “Youth at the Center”.