First State Educate
To empower Delawareans to actively engage in school governance, ensuring that educational leaders have the tools and knowledge to foster accountability and equitable student outcomes.
About First State Educate
Mission: To empower Delawareans to actively engage in school governance, ensuring that educational leaders have the tools and knowledge to foster accountability and equitable student outcomes.
Vision
To create a Delaware where all communities actively shape and sustain an education system that is transparent, accountable, and dedicated to ensuring every student graduates with an education that enables them to lead a successful, productive life.
At the heart of FSE’s mission is an urgent need to address a growing humanitarian crisis in Delaware's public education system. Many students are not receiving the quality education they need to succeed, which deepens the socioeconomic divide between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots.’ This divide has far-reaching implications, as limited educational attainment is closely linked to poverty, crime, and a cycle of inequity that persists across generations. School boards, which make critical day-to-day decisions affecting student outcomes, control multi-million-dollar budgets sourced from nearly a third of Delaware’s state funds. However, with no training requirements in place, many board members are not equipped to manage these substantial resources or to be accountable to the communities they represent.
To create a Delaware where all communities actively shape and sustain an education system that is transparent, accountable, and dedicated to ensuring every student graduates with an education that enables them to lead a successful, productive life.
At the heart of FSE’s mission is an urgent need to address a growing humanitarian crisis in Delaware's public education system. Many students are not receiving the quality education they need to succeed, which deepens the socioeconomic divide between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots.’ This divide has far-reaching implications, as limited educational attainment is closely linked to poverty, crime, and a cycle of inequity that persists across generations. School boards, which make critical day-to-day decisions affecting student outcomes, control multi-million-dollar budgets sourced from nearly a third of Delaware’s state funds. However, with no training requirements in place, many board members are not equipped to manage these substantial resources or to be accountable to the communities they represent.
County Served: New Castle; Kent; Sussex
Office Location(s): Wilmington
Sector: Capacity Building; Community Advocacy; Education; Social Justice; Workforce; Youth Development; Civic Engagement & Social Action; BIPOC-Led (Sr/Exec Leadership)