Tag: School Boards
Voting in Tomorrow’s School Board Elections is What’s Most Important
May 7th, 2012
Delaware’s school board elections scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8, have generated a lot more attention than in the past and my hope is that a lot more people go to the polls and vote (10am-8pm). Our foundation’s mission is to help Delaware create world-class schools. To that end, we worked with hundreds of parents, teachers, and...VIEW ARTICLE
Making the Connection: Local school boards and student performance
April 23rd, 2012
The Vision 2015 Annual Leadership Forum at the University of Delaware last fall featured a workshop on School Board Governance. The panel included three board members representing traditional school districts and one who represented a public charter school. One board member was new, the others longer-serving. The goal was to share...VIEW ARTICLE
Heeding Connecticut
April 9th, 2012
All too often, poverty is cited as the reason why so many of Delaware’s highest-need students show poor performance in the classroom. Poverty can be a factor, clearly. Yet, to use poverty as an excuse that lets all of us—educators, parents, public officials, business and community leaders—off the hook is unproductive and poorly...VIEW ARTICLE
Why Are You Running? The Race for School Board Leadership is On
March 27th, 2012
If you have attended local school board meetings, you’ll know they can be thoughtful, productive, policy-focused, and decisive. They also can be long, tedious, weed-strewn, raucous, and frustrating. Were it not for the significant responsibilities that board members have for the quality of our schools, one might wonder why anyone would...VIEW ARTICLE