July 28, 2016
Delaware News
Delaware State News
State’s teachers union endorses three Democrats
The Delaware State Education Association announced Wednesday it has endorsed Bethany Hall-Long for lieutenant governor and Trinidad Navarro for insurance commissioner. Both are Democrats. State Sen. Hall-Long, who represents the Middletown area, is one of seven...
July 27, 2016
Delaware News
Department of Education
Press Release
Districts, schools win grants to support college access work
Nine Delaware school districts and high schools will implement comprehensive, innovative strategies to increase college readiness and access during the 2016-2017 school year with grants from the state’s College Access fund. The grants...
July 26, 2016
Delaware News
Cape Gazette
State school test scores trending upward
Overall test results for the second year of Smarter Balanced show slight improvement in test scores, although only about half of Delaware students are proficient in English and fewer in math. Department of Education officials released state test results July 21, celebrating 3...
6 Big Takeaways from Smarter Balanced Scores
by Liz Hoyt and Shyanne Miller
Last week, Delaware officially released preliminary statewide results for public school students on the Smarter Assessment and the SAT. We took a look at the data, and pulled out six big takeaways from this year’s results.
Delaware students made incremental gains in year two of the Smarter...