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Reading Consortium presents three Wilmington redistricting options; model vote set for Dec. 16
Summary
At a Red Clay School Board workshop, Reading Consortium co-chairs Senator Tizzy Lachman and Matt Denn outlined three redistricting models for Wilmington-area schools and said the consortium will vote on which model to draft on Dec. 16; American Institutes for Research cost estimates are due before that vote.
Senator Tizzy Lachman and former Delaware attorney general Matt Denn, co-chairs of the Reading Consortium, presented three remaining redistricting scenarios for Wilmington-area schools at a Red Clay School Board special workshop and said the consortium will choose which model to draft at a Dec. 16 vote.
The consortium described three options under consideration: consolidating all four Northern New Castle County school districts into a single Northern New Castle County district; creating a Metropolitan Wilmington district by merging Brandywine and Red Clay and absorbing students from Christina and Colonial; or keeping Brandywine and Red Clay separate while dividing Wilmington students between them (a variation often referred to as the "river" plan). "Our primary goal this evening is to listen to…
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