Secretary of Education Lillian Lowery sent a memorandum to the Delaware State Board of Education giving her “approval” and some caveats on what Newark Charter School (NCS) needs to do. It’s all in the pdf, so go ahead and read it. Or you can read The News Journal article. For your convenience, I’ll give you the final paragraph:
In closing, NCS is located within one of our most diverse and lowest performing districts, yet it serves strikingly few of the most at-risk students within its five mile radius. While I believe that NCS is an exemplary school, it is that belief that makes it more compelling that NCS should be accessible to more high need students. I am hopeful these conditions, coupled with NCS’s full and earnest implementation of them, will result in NCS being more accessible to high need students. However, the Department will review this issue carefully when NCS seeks its next charter renewal and will be inclined to impose additional conditions in the absence of significant progress on this issue. Thank you for your time and consideration of this important matter.