Adult/Career Education & Consolidated Programs
Michael R. Owens, Ed.D.
Associate Secretary
Phone: (302) 857-3000
Fax: (302) 739-1770
Email: mowens@doe.k12.de.us
Adult/Career Education and Consolidated Programs Branch provides a variety of services to the community and to schools.
Adult Education
Maureen Whelan
Director
Phone: (302) 857-3340
Fax: (302) 739-1770
Email: mwhelan@doe.k12.de.us
Adult Education provides academic instruction to adults (16 years of age and older) who are out of school. Students who attend want to increase their skills in order to obtain a job or job promotion; access vocational training; enter college; support their children in school; and/or become more active in their communities. Through Adult Education, students can upgrade their Reading, Math, and Writing skills; increase their English language proficiency; prepare for the GED; or complete their credits to obtain a State of Delaware high school diploma. Technical assistance is given to programs that develop basic skills and provide instruction to allow adults to earn a high school diploma. Programs include Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, GED instruction and testing centers, the James H. Groves Adult High School, Even Start Family Literacy, and Prison Education. More than 5,500 adult learners are served annually in community instructional programs;approximately 750 individuals take and pass the GED test; and 1,100 inmates participate in prison-based education programs.Even Start and state funded family literacy programs emphasize parents helping children with school work, building a solid literacy base by reading to their children,and/or applying more effective parenting strategies.
Career, Technical & Consolidated Programs
Amelia Hodges
Director
Phone: (302) 857-3320
Fax: (302) 739-1780
Email: ahodges@doe.k12.de.us
The Career, Technical and Consolidated Programs workgroup is responsible for processing LEA Consolidated Applications and School Improvement grants and technical assistance, approval, and monitoring for Title l and secondary Career and Technical programs including the training of Delaware's 1,700 registered apprentices, and oversight of instruction to upgrade the skills of incumbent trades persons. This group also administers federal funds for postsecondary vocational education programs and School to Work transition initiatives. School to Work funding creates local school, business and community partnerships to develop K-14 career guidance systems and career pathways that aid the transition from school to work. The group is also responsible for oversight of driver education programs for 16 to 18 year olds
Delaware Center for Educational Technology (DCET)
Wayne Hartschuh, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Phone: (302) 857-3305
Fax: (302) 739-1775
Email: wayne@dcet.k12.de.us
The Delaware Center for Educational Technology is intended to create a modern educational technology infrastructure in Delaware's public schools for the purpose of enabling students through the use of information technology, to meet the academic standards set by the State Board of Education and to develop the skills needed by a world-class work force.
Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA)
Kevin Charles
Executive Director
Phone: (302) 857-3365
Fax: (302) 739-1769
Email: kcharles@doe.k12.de.us
The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) is responsible for administering interscholastic athletics at the high school and middle school levels for 89 member schools.DIAA sponsors and manages state championship tournaments for eleven girls and twelve boys; sports for the benefit of all student-athletes statewide. Management of these events is accomplished through the work of 23 committees representing more than 230 volunteers. DIAA also recognizes 17 sports officials organizations representing over 1,200 certified officials. In addition to the Secretary of Education, a Governor-appointed 18 member Board of Directors provides administrative oversight to DIAA.Our mission is to promote the educational value of interscholastic athletics and assure interscholastic athletics remains compatible with the educational mission of our member schools.
Technology Management & Design
Robert Czeizinger
Director
Phone: (302) 735-4140
Fax: (302) 739-4221
Email: rczeizinger@doe.k12.de.us
The goal of the Technology Management and Design workgroup is to collect, organize, and facilitate access to accurate and current data in order to provide schools, districts, DOE program managers, and other information consumers easy access to the information they need to make informed educational decisions.
The guiding principals for the Technology Management and Design workgroup are to: collect data once, coordinate all data collection activities within the Department of Education, improve the quality of educational decision making by providing accurate and timely information, improve the quality of reporting mechanisms, and provide user-friendly access to databases and reports.
Group activities include:
- manage the state, district and school profile reporting system and fulfill federal and state reporting requirements;
- serve as the central non-fiscal data collection arm of the department ensuring standardization of data definitions with the National Forum of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data definitions;
- develop and maintain data cubes within the data warehouse that provide the capability to respond to ad hoc requests for information, projections, and estimates in support of policy decisions;
- develop and maintain the DSTP-OR databases;
- administer the operation of the Department of Education Computer Center;
- manage the statewide educational communications network and DEDOE website;
- maintain an integrated master student database (DELSIS) for department and school district use;
- chair the internal data clearinghouse and provide DEDOE data manager and database administrator functions;
- design, implement and administer the Department of Education's network, including management of the telecommunications infrastructure;
- manage the statewide Pupil Accounting System (eSchoolPLUS); and
- maintain registration, enrollment and attendance data for the nonpublic schools in Delaware.
