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Vision 2015 Annual Report: Realizing the Vision  


We were pleased to release the 2013 annual report “Realizing the Vision” at our sixth annual conference on Delaware public education. To read the report, click here.


Vision 2015 Annual Report: Realizing the Vision

Vision Network of Delaware  


The Vision Network of Delaware is composed of districts and schools throughout Delaware that are committed to the principles of Vision 2015. Both individually and collectively, they are working to accelerate student achievement through improved leadership, classroom instruction, and school culture, and they are sharing best practices with one another at district and school levels.


Vision Network of Delaware

Did You Know?  


Research shows that teacher quality is the biggest in-school factor in student achievement. In fact, the average student who has three teachers in the top 25th percentile for three consecutive school years will improve from the 50th to the 60th percentile.

“Children First,” New York City, 2007.


Did You Know?

Vision 2015 Annual Report: Realizing the Vision  


We were pleased to release the 2013 annual report “Realizing the Vision” at our sixth annual conference on Delaware public education. To read the report, click here.


Vision 2015 Annual Report: Realizing the Vision


What is Vision 2015?

Vision 2015 is a bold and coherent plan designed to provide a world-class education to all public school students in Delaware. Developed in 2006 by a coalition of education, government, business and civic leaders throughout Delaware, it also laid the foundation for Delaware’s first-place selection in the federal Race to the Top competition. Click here to download the full plan and executive summary.

Promising Practices

Delaware’s public schools have a lot to be proud of. Many of them are already demonstrating Vision 2015 recommendations. Read more about Delaware’s promising practices.

Vision Network

Today, 26 district and charter schools serving 23,000 students in Delaware are implementing key Vision 2015 recommendations related to school leadership and data-informed instruction. Learn more about the work they are doing to accelerate student achievement.

Race to the Top

In March 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced Delaware as the first-place winner of Race to the Top, the federal government’s largest competitive grants program to improve public education. The win was an enormous gain for Delaware, resulting in a $119 million four-year grant and placing the state at the forefront of national education reform. Read more.

Did You Know?

By 2018, 63 percent of all American job openings will require some sort of postsecondary education.
— The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2011.