The Cost of School Bullying
While we talk about whether gun free school zones should be 100 feet, or maybe if we expand them to 1000 feet the extra signs will deter the crazy person who once a year goes into a school somewhere in...
View ArticleLt. Gov. Matt Denn Addresses School Safety
Secretary Schiliro spoke about our effort to expedite the creation of school safety plans. I wanted to give you a few details about some requests we are making of the General Assembly this year that...
View ArticleHow important should testing be?
Christina School District and the state DOE are in a dispute over a test score based bonus program which could cost the district 2.3 million dollars. It is an interesting dispute over how much testing...
View ArticlePrivatize the Children
I support the privatization of children. Now I know this will probably draw as much blowback as the idea of even partially privatizing social security did, but someone has to say it. Until they become...
View ArticleSenator Sokola Harming Delaware Education
Sadly, David Sokola is not alone. Delaware seems determined to go backwards in education by imposing crazy requirements that judge teachers not by their college grades, but high school grades and...
View ArticleThe Loyal Opposition says stop HB 334–The Heart of Common Core
We finally took a sensible approach to testing. Test at the beginning of the year, middle of the year, and end of the year. Delaware’s HB 334 eliminates that and makes your entire “matriculation and...
View ArticleEducation: It’s All About the Children
A tip of the hat to Shirley Min of WHYY for bringing to our attention this reminder from Governor Markell that education in Delaware is all about the children. I am not sure what happened here, but...
View ArticleDelaware Republicans Go On Record Calling for the Repeal of Common Core
The following Resolution passed overwhelmingly at the 2014 state GOP Convention. WHEREAS…America is a society which values rugged individualism, family, excellence, and diversity; WHEREAS…The Common...
View ArticleSussex Tech Property Tax Increase?
By Staff Writer: Wolf von Baumgart General Assembly Considers Options The Delaware General Assembly met twice earlier this week to consider funding options for Sussex Technical High School District....
View ArticleCitizens Rally At Leg Hall In Support Of HB 50
HB50, It’s All About The Right To Choose To Opt Out Of Testing Co-written By Don Ayotte and Wolf von Baumgart An Education Rally at Delaware’s Legislation Hall, drew an eager crowd of parents and...
View ArticleDelaware PTA Disheartened by Smarter Balanced Assessment Announcement by 4...
In a statement made today by Governor Markell, Delaware PTA learned that the four colleges; Wilmington University, University of Delaware, Delaware Technical and Community College and Delaware State...
View ArticleDelaware Legislators Consider Solutions to Sussex Tech Crisis
School Tax Increase Looms on the Horizon By: Wolf von Baumgart, Staff Writer In the face of the Sussex Technical High School District’s growing financial and enrollment complications, state legislators...
View ArticleHB 50, Parental Right to Opt Out of Smarter Balanced Squeaks out of Committee
HB 50 received the 8 votes necessary to release it from committee over the objections of the chairman. 1 in favor, 7 on its merits, 1 opposed and 5 no votes. The committee report is as follows: This...
View Article9-12 Delaware Patriots to host Candidate Nights for Kent and Sussex County...
The 9-12 Delaware Patriots will be hosting two school board candidate nights, one for all of the Kent County Candidates and another for the Sussex County Candidates. Each event will be conducted as a...
View ArticleAppoquinimink-Delaware’s Top High School?
U.S. News and World report did a massive ranking of America’s public high schools. Congratulations to the State Winner, Appoquinimink High School in Middletown which ranked 1300th nationally which is...
View ArticleFormer Delaware Politics Author, Shaun Fink resigns from Indian River School...
I expect to update this article after I converse with Pastor Fink. UPDATE: Shaun Fink said that he would pray about returning. He gives his best to our readers and reminds them that to “GOD be the...
View ArticleDelaware Senate Passes Opt-out Bill With Amendments
By: Wolf von Baumgart, Staff Writer The Delaware State Senate, yesterday, has passed HB 50, legislation that legally codifies the existing rights of parents to have their children opt out of...
View ArticleMarkell Issues Tone Deaf Veto of Parental Opt Out Bill
Governor Markell issued a veto message with his veto of HB 50 in spite of the fact it passed with veto proof majorities. Part of which is below. “HB 50 would undermine the only objective tool we have...
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