The Delaware Charter Schools Network, 11 charter schools and the Delaware secretary of education are waiting on a judgeās 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 …
This story was originally published in August 2022. Delawareās 2022 test scores were released this August, and they arenāt pretty.Ā Just 30% of Delaware students in grades three to eight met grade-level math requirements, while 42% earned a proficient score in English language arts.Ā These scores come from the state-administered Smarter Balanced Assessment, an end-of-the-year summative test that measures the …
The Delaware Library Consortium announced Tuesday that it will spend $1 million to add school libraries into the statewide catalog. The goal is to broaden the First Stateās library catalog and provide more students an opportunity to conduct research or read for pleasure. āOver the years it seems like everything around literacy has been tweaked except school libraries, until now,ā …
Delaware test scores have fallen to the bottom of the heap since 2019, with some worse than any other state, according to the Nationās Report Card, which was released Monday.Ā From 2019 to 2022, the average scores for Delaware fourth-graders on the math assessment dropped by 14 points, the steepest of any state.Ā āIn Delaware specifically, our scores were decimated,ā …
Delawareās teacher union proposed a new salary schedule Monday that includes a base pay of $60,000. Of that base pay, $42,000 would come from the state ā $12,000 more than itās currently paying.Ā Under the plan, teacher salaries would be raised over three years, costing the state $134.5 million in total. By the final year, total teacher salaries would cost …
Ashley Lockwood, a fifth-grade teacher at Lulu Ross Elementary in Milford School District, has been named the 2023 Delaware Teacher of the Year.Ā Ā āTeaching children has been one of the greatest blessings and gifts that God has ever given me, and for that, I will be forever grateful,ā Lockwood said during the award ceremony Tuesday night. āThank you to my …
Caesar Rodney School District students will be the first to return to school this fall, heading back on Tuesday, Aug. 23. Others such as Colonial start next week, but the majority head back after Labor Day. For the first time since March 2020, the spectre of COVID-19 will be shoved into the coat closet and largely left there. āKids can …
The Delaware Department of Education announced last week it has hired a Virginia consultant to study the stateās public education funding system. As todayās wisecracker would say: Good luck with that. How the money trickles down to the classroom is complex, and it follows a funding system established in the 1940s. The stateās population then was 286,000, compared to todayās …
Delawareās 2022 test scores were released Tuesday, and they arenāt pretty.Ā Just 30% of Delaware students in grades three to eight met grade level math requirements, while 42% earned a proficient score in English language arts.Ā These scores come from the state-administered Smarter Balanced Assessment, an end-of-the-year summative test that measures the abilities of students in grades three through eight …
First State Educate, a local education advocacy group, held a webinar Tuesday to outline where COVID-19 relief money went. Relief funds were spent on learning loss, educational technology, building and mental health.Ā āAs we come through, and hopefully out of the COVID-19 pandemic learning loss and recovery, not just academic, but social emotional recovery is a grave concern of mine,ā …
