State awards six grants to charter, districts to support family engagement
Five school districts and a charter school have won state grants totaling almost $263,000 to support projects aimed to better engage families.
“Every educator will tell you how vital parent involvement is to children’s academic success as well as a strong school community,” Secretary of Education Mark Murphy said. “We have to find better ways to engage families. Many parents want to be involved. But with the many work, family and other demands they also are balancing, they may not know what opportunities are available or how they can create their own. These districts and charter school are piloting innovations that other schools also will be able to learn from and replicate when successful.”
The winners are:
- Capital School District ($49,889) to create “Parent Patrol” at Dover High School as well as “Inner Circle of Parents” that each teacher will communicate with regularly
- Christina School District ($48,000) to support the district’s Parent University, including Family Technology Centers and creation of virtual resource center online.
- Delmar School District ($50,000) to expand evening school resource office hours for parents, support district pride day and pay for technology for a parent involvement tracking system.
- Kuumba Academy Charter School ($47,823) to support family/community resource coordinator who will target parents of students behaviorally or academically at-risk; anti-truancy campaign; family outreach and home visit program; and parent/teacher training program.
- Lake Forest School District ($34,119) to support Spartan Sprouts program, which targets children and families not eligible for other agency services but who may benefit from services such as parenting skills and child development education as well as Lake’s Imagination Library, which allows parents to sign up their children to receive a book a month until they enter kindergarten.
- Red Clay Consolidated School District ($32,876) for the Red Clay Children Achieving Network, which will design sessions to support student and parent needs after assessing current assets and researching best practices.
Read the full proposals here: http://www.doe.k12.de.us/rttt/award_dist_chart.shtml
This is the second round of winners in the competitive grant process, which was open to all districts and charter schools to apply to up to $50,000. In December, the state granted Indian River School District $37,705 for a “Student Success STEMS from Parental Support” educational series and Seaford School District $47,476 to open an evening Homework Center and support other efforts at its Family Resource Center. The Delaware Department of Education is funding the grants with part of the community engagement funds in the state portion of Delaware’s federal Race to the Top grant. This money is in addition to the local RTTT funds district and charter schools already were awarded.
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