All of Delaware’s students deserve a safe, equitable, and proficient education.

Yet schools in our state and across the country have a long way to go before that vision becomes a reality. Violations of students’ rights, historic underfunding of public schools, systemic racism, and violence in schools are all-too-common occurrences behind school walls. Our education work focuses on tackling those injustices to help make schools in Delaware everything that we know they can be.

Through advocacy and direct service in schools, our education campaigns work to ensure all children receive the learning environment that they deserve. We challenge inequitable and unfair funding. We fight to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline so that our education systems open up doors of opportunities, instead of putting kids behind bars. And we protect the rights of all students — especially students of color, students with disabilities, students who are English language learners, and students who live in often-ignored zip codes.

PROGRAMS

Education Equity Ambassador Program

Education Equity Ambassadors (EEAs) complete a paid training over the course of six sessions to better understand and navigate avenues for change, and to grow the skills necessary to become community advocates on education equity issues such as budget equity, restorative justice, inclusion, and health and safety and more.

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Scholars Engaged for Action (SEFA)

Students who are involved in their larger communities through school programs often feel a sense of inclusion and belonging in their own school communities, leading to better education outcomes and a path of civic engagement that can last far beyond their grade school years.

Learn more about how students get involved in their communities through our Scholars Engaged for Action (SEFA) program.

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School Discipline

Children should be educated, not incarcerated. We are working to challenge numerous policies and practices within public school systems and the juvenile justice system that perpetuate a school-to-prison pipeline

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Fair Discipline Toolkit

This training is a tool for Delaware educators to address high school discipline rates by learning and adopting systematic approaches that encourage problem-solving and create opportunities for students to take more responsibility for their behavior.

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