Delaware Educators Discuss Parental Involvement

NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) -- Educators from across Delaware are gathering to discuss ways to encourage more parents to become involved in their children's school lives.

Lt. Gov. Matt Denn was to welcome school superintendents, teachers and parents and PTA members on Wednesday to a workshop on parental involvement and student success.

The workshop at the Buena Vista center in New Castle is being moderated by Mavis Sanders, a research scientist at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools and an education professor at Johns Hopkins University.