Carter G. Woodson, the founder in 1926 of the first American celebration of African American history, was a teacher, principal, and supervisor of schools. He selected the second week in February as "Negro History Week" because both Frederick Douglass's and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays fall during that week. Dr. Woodson committed his life to education, and to studying the African American experience - earning his doctorate from Harvard University, the second African American to accomplish that. Read more about Dr. Woodson at Teaching Tolerance.
The Midwest City-Del City Public Schools Foundation is a community-based nonprofit organization that for 20 years has been promoting and supporting the Midwest City and Del City public schools by inspiring excellence in education.
Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to every school in the district.
Wondering How the Proposed Budget Cuts This Year Will Affect Mid-Del Schools?
In the Mid-Del schools, for every 1% reduction in the Oklahoma state aid, the district loses over $410,000. Ninety percent of the district's budget is people, in other words, jobs. To learn more about the situation, click here.
The Midwest City-Del City School District provides a comprehensive educational program for over 14,600 students. Mid-Del has a wide variety of academic, enrichment, and extracurricular programs. Schools emphasize active student learning, higher order thinking, reading and writing across the curriculum, cooperative learning, parental involvement, and high expectations for personal achievement. They stress scholastic excellence with special emphasis on the basics.
Mid-Del is a school district where the priorities are teaching and learning. Mid-Del schools arecommitted to continuous improvement and doing the right thing!
