Federal Programs

Red Clay is part of the New Castle County Consortium for alternative programming. We work with three programs:

Positive CHANGE Academy, Parkway Academy and YEARRRN Academy.

Click here for contact information for each program. 

April Anderson is the District Liaison for Special Populations for the Red Clay Consolidated School District. April serves as the primary contact for both children in foster care and families experiencing homelessness. Through the coordination of multiple services, April ensures that all students enroll in school and have the opportunity to succeed academically.

Understanding that every family has varied circumstances, April enjoys connecting with families to meet them where they are.  A Delaware native, April takes pride in graduating from Red Clay Schools and will always consider herself an “AI Tiger”. In her spare time she travels every opportunity she can and plans to hike across every US National Park. The motto she tries to live by is…”Leave people better than you found them.”

Jim Campbell is the Private School Liaison for Title I, II, & IV Federal Programs. In this capacity, Jim coordinates with private schools within the boundaries of our district that wish to receive allocations from available federal programs. These programs help to pay for things like tutoring for elementary students, technology for the classroom, and professional development for teachers & staff. This requires him to maintain open channels of communication to ensure that private schools are receiving funds to help their students achieve, while at the same time staying in compliance with state and federal regulations. While policy and procedure may sound less fun than a root canal, Jim doesn’t find that to be the case at all. He draws on lessons learned from his twenty-five years of teaching experience and really enjoys the personal connections he makes with his contacts at the private schools he serves. What really does it for Jim though, is the sense of pride he gets in knowing that what he’s doing helps ensure that all students are getting the best education they can.  

Red Clay utilizes our team of visiting teachers to provide support to our schools. Visiting teachers work to assist the buildings to be in compliance with the Delaware Code and Red Clay Policy related to attendance.  They are there to support and enhance the work done at the building level and to intervene in situations where building efforts fail to elicit and produce change in a student's daily attendance.