Feature Article: Redding Consortium, lawmakers, community leaders call for targeted, educational equity funding in FY2022 budget

Redding Consortium, lawmakers, community leaders call for targeted, educational equity funding in FY2022 budget

Published: February 5, 2021

WILMINGTON – The Redding Consortium for Educational Equity and its supporters on Friday called on the Governor and the General Assembly to fully fund a series of targeted initiatives focused on improving outcomes for students in some of Delaware’s highest-poverty schools.

“Decades of failed policies and half-hearted reforms have created more high-poverty, racially identifiable schools than ever before, where generations of students from Wilmington and northern New Castle County have and continue to receive an inequitable education,” said Redding Consortium co-chair Sen. Elizabeth “Tizzy” Lockman, D-Wilmington.