K-5 Early Intervention Program Among Top 50 Innovations in Government - The News Journal
07.04.09
The Delaware Children’s Department’s K-5 Early Intervention Program is among the list of Top 50 Government Innovations announced by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. As one of the Top 50 Government Innovations, the program will compete for one of six 2009 Innovations in American Government Awards. The K-5 Early Intervention program has also been named as one of six semifinalists for the Annie E. Casey Innovations Award in Children and Family System Reform.
“It is always wonderful to see the hard work of our State employees being recognized,” said Governor Jack Markell. “What’s even more rewarding, though, is the positive outcomes this program has provided for the children and families it serves.”
The K-5 Early Intervention Program (formally the K-3 Program) is a collaborative effort between the Delaware Children’s Department and the Department of Education. It was developed in 1996 in an
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Delaware, one of the original thirteen of the United States of America.Â
In 1609 Henry Hudson, in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, on his third voyage of discovery, sailed into Delaware Bay. This was the first visit of a European, so far as known, to the territory now called Delaware. The bay was so named about the year 1610 by the Virginians in honour of their first Governor, Thomas West, Lord Delawarr.
The Dutch, basing their claims on rights acquired by Hudson's discovery, made the first attempt at settlement. In 1629, under the authority of the Dutch West India company, and with the countenance of the Governor and council of New Netherlands, a tract of land from Cape Henlopen to the mouth of the Delaware River was purchased from the natives, and a company formed in Holland to colonize it. In the spring of 1631 a ship carrying emigrants reached the Delaware, and a colony was planted near Cape Henlopen, on Lewes Creek, the colonists giving the country the name of Swaanendael. The life of this colony was ended after a few months. Trouble with the Indians arose, and a fort which had been erected was destroyed, and all the colonists murdered. In 1638 an expedition consisting of two ships carrying some fifty Swedish emigrants, and commanded by Peter Minuit, the deposed Governor of the New Netherlands colony, commissioned by the Swedish Queen Christina, entered Delaware Bay, and the present site of Wilmington was chosen as the place for the first settlement. The colony was known as New Sweden. A fort called Christina was built. After about two years of prosperity sickness began to prevail, and the colony was on the eve of breaking up when another Dutch expedition, though under the patronage of the Swedish Company, appeared, and the new colonists located their settlement several miles from fort Christina. The new arrivals revived the spirits of the Swedes, who decided to remain. Additional colonists from Sweden arrived in 1640, and the colony became well established and prosperous. In 1655, on the appearance of a Dutch fleet, all the forts and settlements were surrendered, and such Swedes as would not take the oath of allegiance were sent to the home country. In 1656 the West India company sold its interests on the South River (called South as distinguished from the North River, as the Hudson was then called) to the City of Amsterdam, and the colony was called "New Amstel" and the authority of New Netherlands over it was ended. In 1664, after the surrender of New Amsterdam to the English, the Delaware settlements were also taken. The name of New Amstel was changed to New Castle, and the settlements were annexed as an appendage to New York, then also under English rule.
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