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Meet Tiffany Trawick

June 20th, 2018

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Hello! My name is Tiffany Trawick and I am excited to join the Rodel Foundation of Delaware as an operations assistant. I was born in Wilmington and moved at age nine to New Jersey where I lived until shortly after the birth of my first child. It was at that time I realized I wanted a more carefree environment for my family so we decided to...

5 Reasons You Should Care About the 2020 Census

May 30th, 2018

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  The census is an official count of the U.S. population that takes place every 10 years. The next census is right around the corner in 2020, which we know will capture an increasingly diverse population of approximately 330 million people.   What may seem like boring, boilerplate people-counting is actually darn important. Here’s...

Community Collaboration: Hodgson Vo-Tech and LACC

May 16th, 2018

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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

April 26th, 2018

Author: Neil Kirschling

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...