Is Charter School of Newark submitting charter application for new high school in Newark?

Deerpark Patron, on December 30, 2011 at 5:50 pm said: Hey- this is marginally off topic. But how do the folks from Christina School District- and all the folks supporting Newark and Glasgow High feel about Greg Meece submitting his application for a highschool next week. Seems like he is running with scissors to cut the feet [...]

Delaware Governor Jack Markell is incompetent as education czar aka Skipper’s change agent

Meetings on school standards planned: Community input sought on changes :Written by NICHOLE DOBO The News Journal The way academic achievement is measured and reported at the state’s public schools may change, and the state Department of Education is hosting a series of public meetings to inform the community and gather feedback. WTF !!!!!!!!!!! Delaware transitioned out DSTP [...]

Dancing with the devil will result in somebody getting burned !

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION RACE TO THE TOP GRANT REVIEW Phase I Tier 2 State Presentation The State of Delaware 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2010 MR. SCHOENHALS: “I am Skip Schoenhals, Chairman of WSFS Financial Corporation, which is one of the largest  independent banks in the state of Delaware. That is Main Street banking, not Wall Street banking”. CNNMoney; Bailed out banks: ”The Treasury [...]

Delaware Sec of Ed needs to make the “emergency” meeting with CSD public re: RTTT PZ #arenduncan

Happy New Year from the Delaware Department of Education! DEDOE will start the year off with another behind closed door meeting concerning the expenditure of taxpayers money re: RTTT Glasgow PZ. I ask ! Where is the transparency with Race to The Top funding?  I wonder if representatives from the teachers union is invited? Is Arne Duncan [...]

Red Clay admins creates new math. Re: Building Capacity

What is building capacity ? I thought it was how many students related to building safety and number of classroom times reasonable class size. The reality is building capacity is really “program capacity” defined by what suits the district administration. So adding trailers can increase capacity. Listen to recording (start at 23:31 on the recording) ”Trailers are [...]

News Journal’s Lois Lane ends 2011 on December 29, 2011

New Year’s Eve board meeting Posted on December 28, 2011 by Nichole Dobo The Red Clay School District has advertised a New Year’s eve meeting for the school board. Since it’s an executive session, it’s not open to the public. The agenda says it is for legal and personnel issues. Chalk this one up to how school board members don’t [...]

Red Clay gearing up for February 28, 2012 Referendum

Red Clay School District is gearing up for a big referendum push and even established a referendum webpage  One of the big winners will be the affluent who wants a new elementary school in efforts to build their exclusive neighborhood school network. Red Clay continues to refuses traditional middle and high school services within their share of the city of Wilmington. [...]

Somebody better tell Glasgow High School the feds are coming

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011  Duncan wants to see Race to the Top results  By Ben Wieder, Stateline Staff Writer It’s been a year and a half since the U.S. Department of Education issued its first grants from the Race to the Top program. Last week, the department indicated that it’s expecting to see some results. After announcing the seven states [...]

Delaware State University sponsored charter school may be a good thing! But is DEDOE the right fit ?

STEM charter high school planned at DSU: School would open on Dover campus in 2013 Delaware State University’s goal of opening a charter high school on it’s Dover campus is a good thing and I doubt Markell’s Delaware Department of Education clones will be fool enough to oppose it. There use to be a time when I [...]

Special delivery for Governor Jack Markell

All jokes aside Jack, enjoy the holidays. You and I may be looking-down opposite ends of the telescope but somewhere in the middle is the answer. Government exist to serve the people not the other way around. I give you this pile of coal but with my luck you’ll turn it into diamonds .