News Briefs
The head of a Delaware state task force on school discipline says zero-tolerance policies leave no room for rational thinking.
November 3, 2009
A Delaware 1st grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school for taking a camping utensil to school has now been allowed to return to class.
October 20, 2009
In her forthcoming budget, Gov. Ruth Ann Minner will propose expanding her full-day-kindergarten initiative to 11 districts and nine charter schools.
January 22, 2008
In K-12 education, lawmakers allocated $1.9 million to fully finance all-day kindergarten in the 2008-09 school year and $2.7 million to place math specialists in middle schools.
July 17, 2007
Gov. Ruth Ann Miller said her budget proposal would fully finance full-day kindergarten for Delaware's regular public and charter schools.
January 23, 2007
Delaware lawmakers have capped several years of debate by passing a mandate that the state’s 15 school districts offer full-day kindergarten programs by the 2008-09 school year.
December 5, 2006
Delaware rolls out a new method to judge performance of principals and district-level administrators that ties leadership to student achievement.
June 9, 2008
The Department of Education last week added three more states to a pilot program that evaluates schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act based in part on the growth individual students make over time.
November 10, 2006
Prompted by concerns about international competitiveness, a coalition of business, foundation, and education groups in Delaware launched a campaign last week to promote a plan for transforming public education in the state.
October 24, 2006
In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Department of Education officials have announced the expansion of two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.
July 27, 2006
The states that made the first cut to qualify for a new pilot program that would let them use so-called growth models to judge whether schools and districts meet their performance targets under the federal No Child Left Behind Act are using a variety of approaches to tackle the task.
April 6, 2006
Experts warned Southern education leaders meeting here that falling graduation rates may threaten the region’s progress in improving students’ test scores, access to preschool, and other advances in recent years in the poorest region of the United States.
Updated: December 28, 2006
It has been less than six months since the nation’s governors gathered for a summit on high schools, and already at least half a dozen states have enacted policies that require students to complete tougher academic programs to earn a diploma.
June 21, 2005
Students in the upper grades of Delaware’s charter schools are outperforming their peers in regular public schools, an evaluation has found.
March 29, 2005
This year’s Delaware high school seniors could be the first class in the state to receive diplomas ranking graduates in three categories, though some state lawmakers are working to put a hold on the plan.
April 28, 2004
