The Wilmington Learning Collaborativeâs 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 Brandywineâs board to approve the 2023-2024 …
Christina School Districtâs 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 …
Itâs 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 agencyâs 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 …
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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 groupâs governing council voted to approve the budget Tuesday night, and it will now head to the Department of Education for approval before …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative still doesnât have an executive director. Laura Burgos, who was tapped by the Collaborativeâs 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 Brandywineâs school board meeting Monday, council chair the Rev. Shanika Perry â whoâs also a Brandywine board …
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. âThe WLC continues to establish itself as a non-profit corporate entity, and it is very important work,â said Dan Shelton, a member of …
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The only finalist for the job of executive director of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative established her goals, described her stances on key education issues and answered some fun personality questions during a town hall Tuesday night. âThe pace of change doesn’t always align with what we want to see immediately,â said Wilmington resident Laura Burgos. âI think we have an …
The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has narrowed the search for an executive director to two finalists after months of appealing for applications and then sifting through more than 100 candidates. Dr. Laura Burgos and Dr. Edward Ryans are the finalists for the job, said council member Alethea Smith-Tucker during the Thursday night meeting of the collaborative’s governing council meeting. The Wilmington …
