Tag: public schools

Choose One: Smaller Classes, Art, Library, Gym, or Music

Filed in Education by on June 15, 2016 21 Comments
Choose One: Smaller Classes, Art, Library, Gym, or Music

Librarian-Gate is happening right now in Christina School District. It’s kind of unfair to target just this one District though, because the other 15 districts have to go through this every year too. Someone somewhere got it from someone else that District administrators “promised” all librarians would be returning to Christina schools if the March […]

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Polls are Open

Filed in Education by on March 23, 2016 20 Comments
Polls are Open

In Christina, Brandywine, and Cape Henlopen School Districts the polls are now open for Super Referendum Wednesday. They will remain open until 8pm this evening.

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Pay Per Pupil?

Filed in Delaware by on January 3, 2016 29 Comments
Pay Per Pupil?

Imagine if we paid for other government services on a per use basis. Fire companies. They can’t douse your burning home until you pay them. Paramedics can’t begin to administer emergency medical care until your form of payment clears. Police can’t come take your car accident report until they verify your credit card transaction goes through. They can’t investigate your home invasion until you remit payment. The 911 phone system. “The fee for this service is $2.99 per minute for the first minute, and $1.99 per minute thereafter, please enter your 16-digit credit or debit card number followed by the pound sign”. Transportation. I take Route 40 to work sometimes. Sometimes I take 896. Imagine if they set up EZ Pass sensors at every point where a secondary road connected.

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Remedies for the Classroom

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 18, 2015 3 Comments
Remedies for the Classroom

Often times when discussing education in Delaware, the conversation quickly turns to funding and resources which evokes a bristly response from residents and tax payers. We spend a LOT of money on our schools yet stories like the one Diane Ravitch shares here are every day occurrences up and down Delaware and all across the country.

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LIVE from the Red Clay Consolidated School District Special Board Meeting on WEIC

Filed in Delaware by on November 2, 2015 7 Comments
LIVE from the Red Clay Consolidated School District Special Board Meeting on WEIC

Red Clay’s Board of Education has called a special session public meeting this evening.  The lone topic on the agenda is WEIC.

This will be my attempt at live blogging the meeting, start to finish. You can check out the agenda and related documents from Red Clay’s BoardDocs site: http://www.boarddocs.com/de/rccsd/Board.nsf/Public

Meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:30pm.

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