Milford School District this week voted to lowerĀ the school tax rate in both Kent and Sussex counties for the eighth year in a row. The Kent County school tax rate from $1.6593 per $100 of assessed property value to $0.2807 per $100 value after receiving reassessed property values from that county. The rate in Sussex also dropped from $4.6503 …
Hereās how Delaware slices its school funding pie
One might find it hard to believe that laundry, driverās ed and athletic travel and equipment are considered āinstructional costsā in Delaware public schools, but they are.Ā Instruction is one of nine categories of funding for the First Stateās public schools.Ā It makes up 55.28% of the spending for the 23-24 school year, totaling $1,584,970,346, according to the Delaware State …
Teacher absenteeism calls for staff flexibility, strategies
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 …