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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Congrats to the House Cop Cabal! Congrats to John Carney! Congrats to every Delaware cop! Congrats to Cop-turned-Rep-turned-sellout of his constituents Franklin Cooke! You all succeeded in your yearlong mission to protect the police abuses that drive the Black Lives Matter movement. You may have missed it since the story was released late Friday afternoon […]
Delaware Liberal Endorses Kim Stock And Kecia Nesmith In Local School Board Elections
Kim Stock For Brandywine School Board. It’s almost impossible to imagine a better, and better-qualified, candidate for the Brandywine School Board. Kim Stock is Delaware’s current Teacher Of The Year. She has been a tremendously-effective and inclusive educator during her career. Just check out these excerpts from the press release following her having been named […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 13, 2019
Let’s start with some good news: The minimum wage increase bill cleared committee. The Forces Of Ee-Vil were out in force and are just getting revved up to drive a stake through the heart of this bill. I think it may have the votes to pass in the Senate. Don’t see any likely D defectors. […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 23, 2019
Richard Collins. Shannon Morris. Bryan Shupe. Jesse Vanderwende. Remember those names. Yesterday, the Delaware House Of Representatives enacted emergency legislation designed to lessen the burden of federal workers who have been caught up in the government shutdown. HB 2 (Schwartzkopf), well, let me just post the synopsis in its entirety: This Act creates the Delaware […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 16, 2019
Can we start with John Carney’s Group Hug? Trying to stay one step ahead of the posse, er, courts, John Carney announced a commitment to provide $60 mill in funding over three years to ‘educate English language learners and low-income students’. Great. No, I mean it, it’s great. Of course, we’re talking about $20 million […]
House Committee Assignments: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous
Guess Speaker Pete decided that Sunday afternoon was a good time to release the House Committee assignments. As if we wouldn’t notice. The short story: This is decidedly the handiwork of Pete Schwartzkopf, with his police pals and his hangers-on getting plum assignments. You can check out the assignments here. Just click on each committee […]
Paul Baumbach on the Shortage of Trade School Grads
Put the Vocational and Technical back into Vo-Tech. In my district, the Vo-tech school is treated by many parents as another college prep charter school. Part of the problem, nationally and in Delaware, is that the Congress expanded their definition of what a vo-tech school can teach, and as a result some (nationally and in […]
Open Thread For July 21, 2017
Trump Considering Pardoning Family and Himself. Anyone surprised? They’re Also Looking To Undermine Mueller’s Investigation. Criminals looking to kill criminal investigation. Rethug response? Crickets. Entire party is a criminal enterprise, or at least acting like one. Carney Vetoes Controversial Charter School Radius Bill. Seems like for good reasons. What do our education mavens think? City […]
Open Thread for May 21, 2017
How ‘Privatization Prophets’ Try to Destroy Public Education. One of their leaders is Trump’s Secretary of Education. BTW, see where Jack Markell fits in. It begins with a ‘D’. Why The Rush to Hire More Border Agents Will Not Work Out So Well. Getting rid of the the polygraph? What could possibly go wrong? Rec0mmended […]
Mark Murphy Blames Teachers’ Union For His Failure to Totally Destroy Public Education in Delaware
Whoa. We all had a pretty good idea that Markell’s ‘torch’ wanted to burn public education in Delaware to the ground. Here, in this New York Magazine blog, Delaware’s former Secretary of Education verifies what we thought. All of this in his own words: Imagine if the teachers’ union was a gatekeeper for quality teaching: […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 15, 2017
So many questions.
Will John Carney propose a budget before or after his Endless Coffee Klatch Tour? It now extends into late April. The tour, that is.
What, if any, proposals will members of the General Assembly introduce to close the $350 million budget gap?
Will Jellyfish John permit Sen. Nicole Poore to singlehandedly end the term of Patrice Gilliam-Johnson as Secretary of Labor?
It’s Settled?
Nutshell: 4-3. Settlement accepted. What remains to be seen is how the best interests of our students are being served by taking the settlement. Once the language is made public, we’ll get a good idea of what each board member believes is in the best interest of our kids.
Brandywine’s Referenda: Take 2
So what’s all this mean? When a District goes out for an operating referendum they’re not going out because the Superintendent wants a raise or because they want gilded flatware in their cafeterias. They’re going out because they can’t keep paying for everything they currently have without more revenue -or- getting rid of existing staff and programs. The only way Districts get more operating revenue in Delaware is by asking residents to raise their own property taxes. Take a look at Christina this year and what changes we had to make because we failed twice to pass an operating referendum last year. Class sizes pushing 40, no librarians in our high schools, scaled back guidance services, no after-school transportation for extracurriculars, most extracurriculars cut. This will be a reality for BSD next year without passage tomorrow. Slashing $8 million out of an operating budget will pretty much decimate the same things.
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