With the 2023 General Assembly session ending in June, educational advocates are cheering the legislatureâs action on early education, mental health support and transparency relating to school boards. One leader, though, would like to see bills that focus on letting parents know clearly and precisely whatâs happening in the classroom, starting with easy to find proficiency ratings. About 60 bills …
A human resources director for the largest school district in Sussex County shocked a House Education Committee hearing in April when she told them about 300 of its 1,000 educators are off on any given school day. About 800 of those educators are teachers, and their absenteeism rains down problems for the district, said Celeste Bunting, director of human resources …
Despite months of outcry from the charter school community, the Delaware State Board of Education voted Thursday night to create a pathway for charter school leaders to be certified under the same requirements as district leaders. Itâs a move that Kendall Massett, executive director of the Delaware Charter Schools Network, previously called offensive, degrading, ridiculous and infuriatingly insulting when Regulation …
Summer school once summoned images of unhappy students who had failed a class trudging off to classes to make them up while their friends played in pools. Not anymore. Schools now offer extensive summer programming for all ages meant to support the whole student academically, emotionally and socially while catching up or accelerating their learning to get ahead of the …
A Delaware Superior Court judge has ruled that the state secretary of education must verify or deny invoices for special needs services for students sent from charter schools to districts. The opinion said there was not enough information for him to order the state to pay the $4 million for which the Delaware Charter Schools Network and 11 charters sued …
Five of Delawareâs 19 school districts no longer livestream their board meetings. Caesar Rodney, Delmar, Laurel, Smyrna and Woodbridge school districts removed the virtual option this years as students and faculty return to an in-person environment with pandemic restrictions diminishing. John Marinucci, the executive director of the Delaware School Boards Association, said the organization pushed for legislation that allowed, but …
A bill giving school districts power to tell charter schools to transport students living within the district passed through the House Education Committee Wednesday. House Bill 81, sponsored by Rep. Kim Williams, D-Marshallton, the chair of the committee, could force charters to privately contract their own buses to bring students within a district to the schools. Rep. Rich Collins, R-Millsboro, …
A bill that would establish a 17-person task force to focus on mentoring and improving literacy rates for Delawareâs youth unanimously passed the House Education Committee Wednesday. âWe believe that the 18,222 children in charter schools across our state benefit not just from the educators in the building, but from the village that helps educate them,â said Kendall Massett, executive …
A state board has recommended changing the certification and licensure requirements for Delaware charter school leaders to match those of school district leaders. The move by the Professional Standards Board must be passed by the State Board of Education before going into effect. The suggested change has angered charter school leaders and officials. Several wrote to the board prior to …
The state is in the process of creating rules that govern the licensure and certification of charter school leaders. Itâs a move that the executive director of Delaware Charter Schools Network said is offensive and degrading. âItâs absolutely beyond ridiculous and it’s infuriatingly insulting,â Kendall Massett said Tuesday. “Especially the suggestion that those of our current leaders that do not …
