The Wilmington Learning Collaborative’s governing council voted Tuesday night for a budget containing various programs intended to improve outcomes for city students. The budget is for this fiscal year, which concludes June 30, 2024. It totals $16,632,690.20, with $10 million set in the state budget for this year, and the other $6,632,690.20 is carryover funds from last year. Executive Director …
Redding Consortium to launch equity data dashboard in spring
The Redding Consortium expects its equity data dashboard to be completed and open for use by the public in spring 2024. The dashboard, which has been in the works for months, will include both student and educator data, broken down by several metrics. The Consortium creates and recommends policies and practices to the governor and General Assembly that will help …
Learning Collaborative establishes timeline of planning year
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative seems to have more focus and direction, with a timeline and five-phase approach to its 2023-2024 planning year unveiled this week. The collaborative’s Tuesday night meeting was the first led by its newly hired executive director, Laura Burgos. RELATED: WLC gets another planning year after Brandywine vote The collaborative is a state agency created in November …
Back to school: teacher raises, mental health help, funding
As First State public schools reopen next week, most students won’t see much difference in the day-to-day workings of the classroom. But there’s a lot going on in the background. Many districts will be adopting new science and math curriculums designed to help counter the state’s dismal test scores – and continue the battle against COVID-19 learning loss. More mental …
WLC gets another planning year after Brandywine vote
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative’s governing council got its wish and will now have an additional planning year after the final vote to amend the signed memorandum of understanding was approved Monday night. The collaborative, made up of nine city of Wilmington elementary schools across Christina, Red Clay and Brandywine school districts, was waiting on Brandywine’s board to approve the 2023-2024 …
Christina first to OK extension of WLC planning period
Christina School District’s board on Tuesday became the first to vote to extend the planning period for the Wilmington Learning Collaborative. Planning was supposed to have ended with the 2022-23 school year, but because it took a longer time than expected for the 15-person governing council to form, find an executive director and get school assessments moving, the board asked …
‘I’m ready to go’ says WLC’s first exec. director Burgos
It’s official: the Wilmington Learning Collaborative has finalized the contract for its executive director, Laura Burgos, who will sign sometime in the next few days. A special meeting was called for the agency’s governing council Thursday, and after about an hour of its members meeting executively in private, the group publicly announced it had agreed to hire Burgos, who said …
TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – July 20, 2023
This Week’s Top Headlines Include: New Tower Hill head: Admin, mom, chef, poet, storyteller Tatnall grad creates line of stylish, useful pickleball bags State vehicle inspections to use more onboard diagnostics Learning Collab sets $10 million prelim. budget Naamans wins District 2 Majors championship Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey
Learning Collab sets $10 million prelim. budget
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has proposed a way to spend the $10 million it will get from the state next year as the effort to improve educational and societal outcomes for the Wilmington students ramps up. The group’s governing council voted to approve the budget Tuesday night, and it will now head to the Department of Education for approval before …
Contract delays to Learning Collab’s exec. director Burgos
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative still doesn’t have an executive director. Laura Burgos, who was tapped by the Collaborative’s governing council to take over, has yet to sign her contract, the council was told Tuesday night. That detail was a bit surprising because in Brandywine’s school board meeting Monday, council chair the Rev. Shanika Perry – who’s also a Brandywine board …
After 6-month search, Learning Collab selects exec. director
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has finally selected an executive director. After a nationwide search that lasted more than six months, the board on Friday chose Laura Burgos, a career educator in the public, nonprofit and private sectors. “The WLC continues to establish itself as a non-profit corporate entity, and it is very important work,” said Dan Shelton, a member of …
TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – June 15, 2023
Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Candlelight whodunnit makes you wonder who’s really who Tony Award winner starred in Delaware Theater play last year Playhouse season to include familiar shows, famous names Business How’s the Del. housing market? Depends on who you talk to Land cleared for multi-use Silverside Road development …












