education funding

The Public Education Funding Commission is back after a month-long break to discuss equalization amid statewide property reassessment fallout.

Delaware Tech has not yet selected the students who will have their tuition covered, but they will likely be in cohorts in the upcoming fall and spring semesters.

Delaware, 24 other states and Washington D.C. are suing the Trump administration for freezing $6.8 billion in education grants prior to the start of the upcoming school year.

If passed, the district would receive an additional $22.5 million.

The PEFC approved five different recommendations at its Monday meeting, which included a unanimous decision to adopt a hybrid funding framework that blends elements of the current unit count system with a weighted block grant approach.

Delaware is quickly approaching Gov. Matt Meyer’s desired deadline of finalizing a new education funding framework by the end of June, but education experts are raising concerns over the new proposal.

The body in charge of reworking Delaware’s public education funding structure opts not to vote on a new funding framework at its Monday meeting with several details still to be hashed out.

Meyer has made action and accelerated timelines the hallmark of his first few months in office but says there’s no question the federal funding cuts and layoffs under the Trump administration have not made his plans any easier.

The commission in charge of reshaping Delaware’s education funding formula is clashing over the best approach one week before a final vote on a new framework model.

At its meeting Monday, the commission discussed one of its most concrete funding formula changes to date, which includes adopting a three-tiered hybrid model.