Tag: federal education funding

Study Recommends Major Updates to School Funding System: A Look at the AIR Report

Funding and Equity

January 30th, 2024

Educators, researchers, and advocates have long agreed Delaware’s school funding formula is in need of updates and modernization. Per the lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Delaware and Delawareans for Educational Opportunity, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) were contracted by the Department of Education to carry out an independent...

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What Did Federal COVID Funding Do for Delaware Schools?

Funding and Equity

January 9th, 2024

Back in 2021, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, the third federal stimulus package launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, provided $350 billion for states, local governments, territories and tribal governments, with around $125 billion nationally earmarked for K-12 schools through the Elementary and...

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