Why Should Delaware Care?As Wilmington struggles with teacher retention rates and desires to have more resident educators in its schools, the city has created a new initiative to provide forgivable home loans to school staff.
Wilmington is launching an initiative to provide forgivable loans of up to $15,000 to teachers and other school staffers to help them buy their first homes.
The program is part of a larger effort to keep mid-career educators from leaving Wilmington in favor of better paying teaching jobs in neighboring suburbs…