State Reimbursements Don’t Cover Even Half the Cost of Childcare
As any parent will tell you, childcare is important—and expensive.
And, for low-income parents who are working, training for a job, or looking for work, Delaware provides a subsidy called Purchase of Care to help pay for early learning tuition. Delaware covers about 15,000 children up to age 12 every year...
Community Collaboration: Hodgson Vo-Tech and LACC
A group of Hodgson Vocational Technical High School students traveled to the Latin American Community Center (LACC). What was their goal? To spread the word about good dental hygiene and gain meaningful real world experience.
The Hodgson Vo-Tech students enrolled in the school’s dental assistant program are learning how to work alongside...
A Quick Look at the School Funding Transparency Bill
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...
The Power of Place: Q&A with Evelyn Edney of Early College High School @ DSU
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...