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Gov. Carney’s Wilmington Learning Collaborative faced a key moment this week. The school boards of three districts serving city schools – Brandywine, Christina, and Red Clay - met jointly to try and hash out their concerns about a memorandum of understanding (MOU) designed to guide this effort to transform Wilmington’s underperforming elementary and middle schools.Board votes on the MOU are scheduled this month and Carney wants the school boards to sign on as soon as possible to get the process rolling.Contributor Larry Nagengast explains the latest this week on where things stand.

Sharon Moore’s Kaleidoscope: Journey of the Sharecroppers’ Granddaughter is a series of stories and recollections about her life.In this week’s Arts Playlist, she joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele to tells us more about the book and the stories in it.

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The Creative Vision Factory in Wilmington enters its 11th year using art to help those facing mental health issues and addiction.And this week, contributor Larry Nagengast examines how its evolved over the past decade – as well as the challenges it faces moving forward.

The process is underway to build wind farms along the Atlantic coast near Delaware. But the First State has no real say in what they’ll look like in size and scope – only some influence in how they may operate.This week, contributor Jon Hurdle explains what that means for the state and towns along the Delaware coast.

A recent report by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education ranks Delaware low when it comes to access to preschool when compared to other states nationally.Delaware Public Media's Joe Irizarry spoke with the institute's founder and senior co-director Steve Barnett about Delaware's ranking, how it can improve and if actions promised by the governor can make a difference.

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This week – we bring you episode 3 of the Delaware Humanities’ podcast: A More Perfect Union.The podcast explores the concept of “identity” in Delaware - and this second episode focuses on health and the environment.

The Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover is getting a new director.Michael Dudich takes over on July 1st and joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele on this week’s Arts Playlist to discuss the job and his plans for the Biggs.