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EastSide students met with crowd of cheers for 1st day

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

One of the songs blasting on the speakers to bring the energy to EastSide Charter Schoolā€™s students as they embark on their first day of school Tuesday was ā€œI Canā€ by musical legend Nas. Widely-considered one of the best lyricists of all time, Nas wrote the chorus: ā€œI know I can (I know I can), Be what I wanna be …

The Wilmington Learning Collaborative is made up of nine city elementary schools across three districts.

How the WLC plans to spend $16.6M to improve city schools

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Wilmington Learning Collaborativeā€™s governing council voted Tuesday night for a budget containing various programs intended to improve outcomes for city students.Ā  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.Ā  Executive Director …

The collaborative will use the 2023-2024 school year as a planning year.

Learning Collaborative establishes timeline of planning year

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

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 collaborativeā€™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 …

Laura Burgos has been selected to be the executive director of the WLC.

‘Iā€™m ready to go’ says WLC’s first exec. director Burgos

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Itā€™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 agencyā€™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 …

Laura Burgos has been selected to be the executive director of the WLC.

After 6-month search, Learning Collab selects exec. director

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Wilmington Learning Collaborative has finally selected an executive director.Ā  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. ā€œThe WLC continues to establish itself as a non-profit corporate entity, and it is very important work,ā€ said Dan Shelton, a member of …

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Wilmington Learning Collaborative releases draft agreement

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

A draft of the agreement formalizing the Wilmington Learning Collaborative says parents, students and teachers will be included in the governing council, which will hire a small team to run the organization. The draft, announced Wednesday during a community engagement event, is a major step forward the five-year process that will see Wilmington elementary and middle schools carved out of …