A Redding Consortium work group agreed to explore services for middle and high schools. (Unsplash)

Redding Consortium: Need to add middle, high school services

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity wants to add the same kind of support and wraparound services that elementary schools get to middle and high schools that need them. Those services include before- and after- school programs, summer programs, interventions, tutoring, wellness centers, child care and other social services. The topic took up about a half-hour of the consortium’s Social …

The Community Education Building, which is home to Kuumba Academy Charter School in downtown Wilmington.

Kuumba’s $2.4M grant will expand wellness, after school programs

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Kuumba Academy, a Wilmington charter school, will use a $2.4 million state grant to expand its health center and summer school program. The school will start receiving money from the grant — called a wraparound grant because it can be used to pay for school services outside the classroom — in January. Through the same grant, Capital’s Towne Point Elementary …