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Education Funding Improvements Gaining Momentum in Delaware

Funding and Equity

February 8th, 2023

School funding is complex and can be difficult to change, but change is coming. As the subject of a lawsuit settled in 2020, Delaware’s system is getting a closer look and more attention. Here are five reasons we think change to our education funding system is coming in the near future. 1. The agreements made in the lawsuit settlement by the...

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Remembering MLK Through the Next Generation

News

January 20th, 2023

I was honored last Sunday to serve as a judge for the latest installment of the MLK Voice4Youth program, a spoken-word competition for middle and high school students. Their charge was to follow the trail blazed by Dr. King by speaking up for change through their performances. An eighth-grader named Ayomikum Adeojo from Newark Charter...

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Staff Turnover Disappeared at New Castle Elementary. Their Secret? Teacher Residencies.

Educator Support and Development

December 16th, 2022

In her first year as principal of New Castle Elementary School, TeRay Ross wasn’t the only newcomer. In fact, on that first day in 2017, 12 of the 22 homeroom classes inside her cavernous school—a circa 1929 former high school nicknamed “the castle”—were helmed by teachers who were also new to the building. She later learned the...

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