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Delaware Department of Education Pulls a Fast One

Filed in Education by on August 29, 2016 21 Comments
Delaware Department of Education Pulls a Fast One

A rising tide lifts all boats. With Christina slashing $9 million last year, this new formula applied retroactively would have increased Christina’s cost per student by roughly 3% resulting in a net increase payout this year for Charters that receive Christina resident students…despite the District having to decimate its budget last year.

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Accurate Education Funding Data is Hard to Come By, Unless You Know Where to Look

Filed in Education, Featured by on March 22, 2016 8 Comments
Accurate Education Funding Data is Hard to Come By, Unless You Know Where to Look

Non-special school Christina School District Expense Per Pupil from State & Local Funding Sources: $10,899.97. Christina School District Expense Per Pupil from Local Funding Sources (your property taxes, Christina residents): $5,001.31

And those are the actual numbers. Not some artificially inflated, skewed, misleading fuzzy math number those other guys are spewing.

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What Brought the No Votes to Christina? Part I

Filed in Delaware, Education by on March 14, 2016 13 Comments
What Brought the No Votes to Christina? Part I

A commenter on my previous post about supporting public education and “Super Referendum Wednesday” asked specifically about the Christina School District’s two failures last year and if there were any themes from no voters as to why they voted the way they did. Rather than answer it inline, I felt those themes deserved their own posts for visibility sake, That way the types of misinformation we have campaigned against for the last several years is put on display.

Yes, there are common themes among the no-voters that emerged from both elections, and they persist even today. Check out the CSDpavingtheway or Official District’s Facebook pages for proof. Better yet, read the comments on any article the News Journal posts about Christina on delawareonline.com, just be sure to have your eye bleach ready.

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