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June 29, 2015

June 29th, 2015

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Delaware News The New American Delaware passes bill allowing opt out of Common Core mandated tests The Delaware legislature has passed a bill permitting parents to have their kids opt out of Common Core-mandated standardized tests. Dover Post Academy of Dover eyes better future after auditor report After the Office of Auditor Accounts released a...

June 26, 2015

June 26th, 2015

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Delaware News The News Journal Lawmakers OK letting students skip standardized testing After some of the fiercest fights of this session and bouncing back and forth between the houses of the General Assembly, it took the state Senate all of five minutes Thursday to approve a controversial bill that would allow parents to pull their kids out of the...

Introducing Sophie Lin: Policy Fellow

June 24th, 2015

Author: Sophie Lin

I am very excited to join the policy team as a Policy Fellow at the Rodel Foundation this summer. I was born in France and grew up in Kentucky, Philadelphia, and Shanghai. I became interested in education after taking one class my junior year of college, which changed my view. In an economics course at SciencesPo in Paris, I researched the...

Introducing Daryl Simon: Communications Fellow

June 24th, 2015

Author: Daryl Simon

My name is Daryl Simon, and I am the new Communications Fellow. I will be working at the Rodel Foundation of Delaware this summer before packing my bags and traveling halfway across the world to study for a full semester in Prague, Czech Republic. After that, I will be returning to Delaware to continue my undergraduate degrees in public policy...