In Red Clay It Shouldn’t Be City vs Suburbs

I’m not even going to link to the article in today’s News Journal, because it really doesn’t say much and the reporter missed the opportunity to report on the real story – a story that involved parents and citizens all over the district are discussing around their kitchen tables, on blogs and at work. This story has several parts.

First, not all Red Clay Schools are created equal. For an interesting discussion on this check out Kilroy’s posts on Red Clay (there’s a lot of them) and this conversation taking place on The Seventh Type. Yes, we’ve been over this, and if you need to catch up check out my posts here and here.

One of the problems I’m seeing is the split in the District. Suburbanites want their neighborhood suburban schools. City parents don’t want their schools to suffer because of these new schools, and want the District to invest in these schools.

Is Capacity Really The Issue In Red Clay?

Last week I wrote a post on the upcoming Red Clay Consolidated School District Capital Referendum. The ballot has been broken into two parts – renovations for existing schools and a new elementary school at Graves Road. I will not be voting for the new school, and here’s why…

An New Idea About Affording College

As most of you know, the Pandora household is preparing to send our first born off to college. We actually received our first second acceptance letter! For those of you not here yet… the cost of college is enough to take your breath away, which is why this article caught my attention.

Over At Kilroy’s: What About The (Charter) Children?

I’ve been having a back and forth with Kilroy over at his blog. It all started with this thought in his post entitled: Pennsylvania moves towards school voucher.

Independence Day?

So I wonder what these people will be celebrating on Monday?
According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from which the United States declared its independence. While 74 percent correctly named Great Britain, 20 percent said they weren’t sure and six percent named other countries. [...]

Appoquinimink Names New Superintendent

Today the Appoquinimink School District is announcing that their next superintendent will be Matt Burrows, currently the principal of Redding Middle School.  Burrows will replace retiring superintendent, Tony Marchio.  Appo is the fastest growing school district in the state, so Mr. Burrows has his work cut out for him.

Sunday Reading — Education

There have been a few articles in various places over the week that might be of interest as we continue to debate the future of education here in Delaware:

A Tea Partier’s Letter To His Teacher Wife

A Tea Partier in Ohio writes a letter of apology to his teacher wife for voting for John Kasich.

Guest Post: Delaware’s Education Insight Project (Part 1: What Is It?)

The following is a guest post by Mike Oboryshko. Mike is a Red Clay parent and a friend of mine and of this blog.
Last Friday, a pair of RFPs were awarded to develop some major new technologies for Delaware schools, as part of Delaware’s Education Insight Project. This project was outlined in Delaware’s Race To [...]

Rating Delaware Public High Schools

Delaware Today released their rating of the best high schools and there is no surprise which is number one

Christina Just Got More Transparent

Last night the Christina School District elected their new school board president, John Young.  John is a friend of DelawareLiberal and has been a tireless advocate for transparency in the Christina School District over at his aptly named, Transparent Christina.
Congratulations, John.

I Wish They All Could Be California Text Books

A California state senator has submitted legislation that would not allow newly approved Texas social studies text books in the Golden State. The senator said:
“While some Texas politicians may want to set their educational standards back 50 years, California should not be subject to their backward curriculum changes. The alterations and fallacies made by these [...]

Delaware Teacher Layoffs – More Than You Think

As mentioned earlier today, while Gov. Markell is busy stroking business leaders in and outside of Delaware, real education jobs are being lost in Delaware, well over 200.