A senior from the Charter School of Wilmington is one of 10 students across the country selected to a new leadership program. Sahaana Rajagopalan is the lone Delawarean to be picked for the Rising Leaders Initiative, a one-year program that trains exemplary students in civic participation, education advocacy, leadership development and public speaking. This is just the second year of …
Enrollment in state charters went up 5.1% during pandemic
Over the course of the pandemic, enrollment in Delaware charter schools increased 5.10%, while traditional public schoolsā student body dropped 1.14%. Thatās according to a report published in November by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. It found that traditional public schools lost students in nearly every state. The First Stateās traditional public schools lost 1,423 students from 2019 …