Milford LIVE Weekly Review – Mar. 21, 2023

Sonja Frey Milford-live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Pub Crawl a huge success in downtown Milford Culture Milton Community Food Pantry to hold groundbreaking ceremony Business Milford Conversation to feature Workforce Development Initiative Government & Politics Public reviews Milford streetscape plans Council reviews SE Transportation Improvement District plan Education State to get …

Delaware has contracted a consultant to evaluate their complex and historic funding formula for school funding.

Here’s why state wants advice on school funding

Jarek Rutz Education, Headlines

The Delaware Department of Education announced last week it has hired a Virginia consultant to study the state’s public education funding system. As today’s 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 state’s population then was 286,000, compared to today’s …