Redistricting Materials

This page has a comprehensive collection of both current redistricting reports and information as well as historical redistricting information. Whether you’re looking to stay up-to-date with the latest developments or explore previous redistricting efforts, use this page to become more familiar with redistricting and governance change in Delaware.

Current Redistricting Materials:

Redistricting One-Pager

This one-pager provides an overview of the Redding Consortium’s redistricting mandate, its current work on redistricting, and its additional efforts to improve educational equity in the city of Wilmington and northern New Castle County.

FAQ Factsheet

The Redistricting FAQ sheet includes answers to questions heard from parents, educators, and community members about the Redding Consortium’s role in redistricting, key definitions, and how communities could potentially be impacted by a redistricting plan.

Interim Plan One-Pager

The Redding Consortium voted on May 9, 2024, as a full body to approve an interim plan to serve as a framework for developing the final redistricting proposal. This Interim Plan One-Pager includes the interim plan’s components, timeline, and other considerations for the final plan.

Redistricting Interim Plan Drafts

The final redistricting plan must address 13 stipulations as outlined in the Delaware Code and may address additional considerations. Per House Bill 229, the Redding Consortium may submit one or more “interim plans” for action that address redistricting – without including all of the components expected in a final plan – as a means to demonstrate areas of consensus, foster dialogue, and provide structure for the plan development to come.

This interim plan defines a framework and process for creating a final redistricting plan. It presents a path forward to the State Board of Education (SBE) around boundary shifts for school districts, immediate support for our city schools, the timeline and engagement process to develop a final redistricting plan, and policy ideas and reforms to address systemic and systematic change for Wilmington students.

Redistricting Interim Plan Consortium Member Feedback

This feedback document summarizes Redding Consortium member feedback on the interim plan from the April 11, 2024 meeting.

Governance Proposal Draft

This is a draft governance proposal developed by Redding Consortium leadership and presented to the Redding Consortium members in March 2024. This is not a final or binding document.

Delaware Education Governance Resources

On the Consortium Resources page, you can find reports and books from groups that specifically worked to address redistricting and education governance in Delaware. Most of these resources reference Wilmington and Northern New Castle County, Delaware.

Historical Redistricting Materials

There are twenty-eight separate governing units, including sixteen in the City of Wilmington, responsible for delivering public education to about 11,000 Wilmington children. Progress has been made in collaboration to support Wilmington students, but student governance must be streamlined to create more effective and equitable change. The Redding Consortium’s path forward for redistricting is informed by over twenty years of reports and input from engaged community members and passionate advocates.

Listed below is a recap of the governance recommendations between 2001 and 2023.

Vision Coalition of Delaware: Student Success 2025; Vision 2015
Wilmington Education Advisory Committee (2015)
Wilmington Education Improvement Commission (2015)
Mayor’s Youth, Education, and Citizenship Strategic Planning Team (established but issued no formal report, 2014)
The People’s Report: The Link Between Structural Violence and Crime in Wilmington, Delaware (2013)

Wilmington Education Task Force (2008)
Hope Commission (2006), Executive Summary
They Matter Most: Investing in Wilmington’s Children and Delaware’s Future (2001)
Children Matter Most: Investing in Wilmington’s Children and Delaware’s Future, Report to the Wilmington City Council and Mayor James M. Baker (2001)
Neighborhood Schools Act 2000