May 15, 2014
Local News
Middletown Transcript
Report: Delaware’s ‘opportunity gap’ for children is widening
Delaware’s population of teens and children is more ethnically and racially diverse today than any time in the state’s history. Yet the gulf in opportunities available to predominately white children born to affluent families and children of...
May 14, 2014
Local News
Cape Gazette
Great things take time; we have to be willing to commit
An opinion by Don Flood
Great things take time. We have to be willing to commit. That’s it in a nutshell. I believe Common Core offers a way forward. That doesn’t mean it will be an easy road. More likely, it means the opposite. But ask yourself: Are the people...
May 13, 2014
Local News
The News Journal
Black, white, brown: Delaware’s role in desegregation
An op-ed by Collins Seitz, Jr., an attorney at Seitz Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP in Wilmington
As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, this special occasion causes us to reflect on the historic role Delaware judges, lawyers and...
May 12, 2014
Local News
The News Journal
School board elections on Tuesday
Voters will select who will fill 21 seats on school boards across the state on Tuesday. Every district in the state has a seat up for grabs, but seven – a third – will be filled without an election because there is only one candidate running. All but five races include an...