Five school districts had huge increases in voter turnout in Tuesday’s school board elections, with some doubling or tripling their vote count from last year’s election. At the same time, seven districts with contested races actually saw a decrease in voter participation since last year. Many observers hoped to see the statewide forums and increased interest in what’s happening in …
Red Clay candidates have placed their campaign signs around North Star Elementary School in Hockessin. (Jarek Rutz/Delaware LIVE News) It’s election day in Delaware. On the ballot: 38 candidates throughout the state in what has turned out to be one of the most divisive and partisan school board elections in memory. Patriots for Delaware sent out an email at 2 …
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230-plus people file out of Tuesday’s Patriots of Delaware election fraud meeting in Milford. Patriots for Delaware on Tuesday said they had evidence of dead people voting in the November 2020 election as well as nursing homes submitting more ballots than they had available beds. The group doesn’t believe the fraud they claim to have found would have …
More than 100 people attended a Monday night panel about alternatives to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments Update: This story has been altered to reflect a change of employment by a panel member. More than 100 people gathered in Newark Monday evening to hear a panel of medical officials offer alternative ways to deal with COVID-19. Panelists denounced COVID-19 vaccines …
About 30 people attended the Milford meeting, including two families with children. Parents who don’t want their kids going back to school wearing masks heard about a variety of options Thursday night during a town hall meeting at Milford Senior Center. The choices included traditional education alternatives, including private and parochial schools, homeschooling, learning pods and even “unschooling.” …
A group of parents who oppose the school mask mandate are working on creating a coalition of homeschooling options that essentially would work like a series of one-room schoolhouses. Photo by Meg Bouldon/Unsplash A group of Delawareans upset about the state’s school mask mandate are working to create alternative education methods for students. The group hopes to build coalitions …
Some Delaware parents say they will keep their children out of classrooms rather than send them wearing a mask. Some parents who oppose Gov. John Carney’s mandate requiring school children and those in childcare to wear masks indoors say they will not send their kids back to school. “For my kid personally, it’s not good for his mental …
