More efforts will be announced this week as part of a public awareness campaign to encourage more students and families to sign up for the program, according to WHYY. The city is hoping to grow PHLConnectED by several more thousand households. We know that there are still significant numbers of families, but we really don t have an exact figure, Otis Hackney, the mayor’s chief education officer, told KYW Newsradio. We know that we put a large dent in those families in terms of bringing them across the digital divide. But there s still a lot of outreach . that we have to do for families to complete the process to get them on board.
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Solutions for Wilmington schools Article by Jordan Howell Photo illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase December 11, 2020
Education and policy specialists from UD support commission to improve schooling in Delawareâs largest city
On a chilly autumn night last November, a diverse group of educators, policy makers, researchers and community leaders gathered to discuss one of the most complicated and long-standing problems in Delaware: how to reform under-achieving schools in the city of Wilmington and New Castle County, and how to address educational inequities that disproportionately affect students of color.
This was the third meeting of the Redding Consortium for Educational Equity, a special committee created by the Governor and General Assembly, and presenting that night on his school turnaround research was Gary Henry, who had just been recently appointed dean of the University of Delawareâs College of Education and Hum