Students experiencing homelessness in Delaware is a growing problem.Often when people think of homelessness, adults come to mind, but, in fact, many times its families with children experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.Just a few years ago, there were approximately 4,400 students identified as experiencing homelessness in Delaware.This week, Delaware Public Media’s Joe Irizarry speaks with the University of Delaware associate professor Ann Aviles, who recently co-authored a new book Serving Students Who Are Homeless: A Resource Guide for Schools, District, Educational Leaders, and Community Partners to learn more about how students facing homelessness can be supported.

In this week’s Enlighten Me, we visit the University of Delaware to highlight work from student journalists – pieces produced by UD Communications students for a fall semester class taught by Lydia Timmins.This week's featured student journalists are Ethan Grandin, Lily Grossberg and Cameron May.

The school was placed on formal review late last year with the Department of Education voicing enrollment, financial and organizational concerns.

In this week’s Enlighten Me, we visit the University of Delaware to highlight work from student journalists – pieces produced by UD Communications students for a fall semester class taught by Lydia Timmins.This week's featured student journalists are Erica Chang, Ellie Hintz and Rachea Santora.

The push to sell the public on the referendum includes expanded information on the district’s website and a series of public input meetings.

The Literacy for We The People project is meant to improve evidence-based literacy in grades 4 through 8 through civics and history classes

The grant went to 39 iPads, 30 sets of wireless headphones and three Bluetooth speakers for students throughout the state.

The Department of Education will share its initial report and hold its first meeting Jan. 12.

For Appo, the amended budget is more complicated as it wrestles with a major budget shortfall discovered earlier this year, as well as snags caused by reassessment.

The Christina School District welcomes one new school board member while the search for another one has started.