The Delaware Department of Education announced last week it has hired a Virginia consultant to study the state’s public education funding system. As today’s wisecracker would say: Good luck with that. How the money trickles down to the classroom is complex, and it follows a funding system established in the 1940s. The state’s population then was 286,000, compared to today’s …
Why high-poverty, racially identifiable schools need money
“We’re laying the foundations for future reforms that are more systemic in nature,” said Tizzy Lockman, a Redding Consortium co-chair and state senator.