December 2, 2015
Delaware News
Delaware Department of Education
Press Release
Charter School Accountability Committee recommends revocation of Delaware MET’s charter
The Delaware Department of Education’s Charter School Accountability Committee today recommended the revocation of Delaware MET’s charter in January because of academic, operational, governance and financial problems at the Wilmington school. A public hearing is scheduled for 5 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Carvel State Office Building at the corner of 9th and French streets in Wilmington. Public comment will be accepted through December 11.
Delaware Public Media
Delaware MET charter school faces closure
The state Department of Education’s Charter School Accountability Committee recommended Tuesday that Wilmington’s Delaware MET have its charter revoked, citing academic, operational, governance and financial problems. If they do, the school would close January 22, and its 210 students would be forced to move to other schools for the rest of the year.
The News Journal
Close Delaware MET charter school, state panel says
Problems with safety, discipline, leadership, finances and instruction have led a state panel to recommend closing a Wilmington charter school — and relocating its students — just one semester after it opened. The Charter School Accountability Committee said the The Delaware Met’s problems are severe enough to merit the disruption of moving students mid-way through a school year.
UDaily
SOE Colloquium: Allen outlines redistricting plan aimed at strengthening Wilmington schools
Tony Allen discussed “Strengthening Wilmington Education: An Action Agenda” during a University of Delaware School of Education colloquium presentation held Nov. 18. Allen identified three major challenges for Wilmington families related to educational outcomes: school governance, high levels of poverty across the state and inadequate resources.
WDEL 101.7
Committee recommends charter revocation for Delaware MET in Wilmington
The state’s Charter School Accountability Committee recommended Tuesday that the state Board of Education revoke Delaware MET’s charter in January, meaning the school’s 210 students could be forced to move to another school for the second half of the school year. The Wilmington high school, which just opened in the fall, has come under scrutiny for alleged academic, operational and financial problems. Delaware MET was placed on probation on October 15, just six weeks after the start of the school year.
EdWatch: Expo on public school choice this weekend in Wilmington
What was previously known as the Delaware Charter School Expo has transformed into an expo on public school choice. The expo runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, December 5, 2015, at the Hercules building in Wilmington. Free parking in the Colonial garage at 12th and Orange streets is being offered to all attendees.
NewsWorks
Delaware committee recommends state close new charter school
A Delaware committee recommended Tuesday that the state shutter a recently opened charter school due to ongoing school climate and leadership issues. Delaware’s Charter School Accountability Committee (CSAC) says the Delaware MET charter school should close at the end of the marking period, in late January. This just months after the Wilmington high school opened its doors.
TEDxWilmington
Blowing the roof off of education
Martin Rayala speaks at a 2015 TEDx event in Wilmington, Delaware. Martin Rayala, Ph.D. is the Chief Academic Officer for Design-Lab Schools. He is one of the founders of Delaware Design-Lab High School and lives in Wilmington, Delaware’s Creative District.
Cape Gazette
Girls Summit draws hundreds of teens
The Sussex County Girls Summit drew more than 200 high school girls to the Atlantic Sands hotel in Rehoboth for a day of workshops, motivational activities and speakers. Life choices, relationships, career, identity and education dominated breakout sessions, speeches and conversation at the first-ever event, sponsored by Pathways to Success Inc., a community outreach program that works to prepare young people and their families for successful lives.
National News
Education Week
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge huge gift to education, public health
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, today pledged to donate 99 percent of their company shares—currently valued at $45 billion—to support efforts to improve public health, education, and communities. A portion of that money will go into backing the popular, if often vaguely defined, goal of promoting “personalized learning” opportunities for students.
Inside Higher Ed
Graduates’ workplace advantage
The effect of the 2008 financial crisis and recession on the employment prospects of college graduates peaked in 2010, when the underemployment rate of college graduates — a metric that includes both unemployed people and workers in part-time jobs, as well as those who have stopped actively seeking a job — was more than 10 percent.
Las Vegas Sun
Nevada needs teachers, and it’s shelling out $5 million to get them
The teacher shortage in Nevada, which is showing no signs of slowing down, is as bad as it is in large part because students are in short supply. More and more students are choosing not to study education, stemming the once-abundant flow of teachers coming out of the nation’s colleges and putting pressure on school districts to find other ways of keeping classrooms staffed. Nationally, college and universities award around 40 percent fewer education degrees now than they did 30 years ago. Only a few hundred teachers are produced by the state’s education departments each year, well below the thousands of empty teaching positions that the Clark County School District has to fill each year alone.