The Delaware Charter Schools Network, 11 charter schools and the Delaware secretary of education are waiting on a judge’s ruling in a lawsuit about $4 million in tax revenue the charters say they are due. The network and the 11 charter schools sued Education Secretary Mark Holodick in Kent County Superior Court in July to get the money and to …
Delaware’s school choice application period is closing Wednesday, Jan. 11. That means families who want to send their children to a school outside of their regular feeder pattern for the 2023-24 school year only have a few days left to submit their paperwork. The good news: It’s mostly online. The First State is one of 13 in the country in …
As the academic year gears up, Delaware schools still have more than 500 teacher vacancies to fill. “We think about it as a perfect storm of conditions,” said Stephanie Ingram, president of the Delaware State Education Association. Schools expected to have a higher than normal number of retirements, partly because of the stresses of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This …
