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A Quick Look at the School Funding Transparency Bill

Funding and Equity, News, Policy and Practice

April 26th, 2018

Senate Bill 172 was introduced in the State Senate this week, representing a monumental foot in the door for addressing Delaware’s arcane school funding system—should  it be enacted.   Delaware, as we’ve written about before, employs a 70-year-old school funding system that is complex, inequitable, and inflexible.   Delaware...

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The Power of Place: Q&A with Evelyn Edney of Early College High School @ DSU

News, Policy and Practice, Postsecondary Success

April 25th, 2018

  Dr. Evelyn Edney and her faculty like to joke about the 79,000 hats on the wall of her office, one for each duty she must perform as head of a small but growing—in both size and impact—charter school in Dover.   Since 2015, Edney has led the Early College High School at Delaware State University, a public charter high school...

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Delaware Remains Among Lowest States Providing Pre-K for Four-Year-Olds

Early Childhood Education

April 18th, 2018

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) released its latest state rankings for pre-K enrollment, and, much like last year, Delaware landed toward the bottom at 36th in terms of providing access for four-year-olds. Less than 10 percent of Delaware four-year-olds are enrolled in state-sponsored pre-K.   Little has...

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