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June 30, 2015

June 30th, 2015

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Delaware News The News Journal UD gets grant to help low-income kids attend Up to 150 students from low-income families could attend the University of Delaware without racking up student debt thanks to a $3 million grant from the Give Something Back Foundation. Kids weld, saw and hammer in construction camp One room had a virtual welding machine...

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...