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State Sen. Tizzy Lockman heads the Redding Consortium looking at ways to improve upstate schools. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Castle County Councilman Jea Street succinctly summed up the situation in Wilmington schools where students from high-poverty areas often fail to make the grade.
“We need help.”
He’s long advocated for better schools in the city of Wilmington. He leads the group Delawareans for Educational Opportunity, which joined with the NAACP to sue the state for failing to provide more funding to schools with high concentrations of students from low-income families.
“These children in the city of Wilmington have waited long enough,” Street said. “These children have suffered irreparable harm, a generation has been lost, and you need look no further than the crime pages to see the end result.”