November 15, 2013
Local News
The News Journal
Red Clay board rejects class size waiver
The Red Clay School Board narrowly rejected last night a request from district administration to waive requirements for maximum class sizes in its earliest grades.
Why Reach needed to close and how we move on
An op-ed by Kendall Massett, Executive Director of the Delaware...
November 14, 2013
Local News
WHYY
Reach Academy leaders fight to keep charter school open
Despite the Delaware Dept. of Education’s decision to not renew the charter of Reach Academy for Girls, school leaders are looking at every possible option to keep the school open. “I haven’t gotten any sense that the option that has been placed on the table by the board...
Delaware’s NAEP Results: Pretty Good Near Term, Better Longer Term
Last Thursday, Delaware and the rest of the nation got the results from “the Nation’s Report Card,” otherwise known as the National Assessment on Educational Progress (NAEP).
The story these results tell is two-fold. First, near term, our student growth between now and 2011 was modest. I’ll elaborate more below, but The News Journal did a...
November 13, 2013
Local News
Delaware Department of Education
Reach charter not renewed because of poor academic performance
Secretary of Education Mark Murphy announced that he will not recommend renewal of Reach Academy for Girls’ charter, citing the school as the worst-performing academically in the state. Reach’s charter, which is at the end of its initial...