education funding inequities

Consortium members voted to condense four northern New Castle County districts to one.

The Special Committee on reassessment heard from school districts in Dover Monday.

The options envision splitting Wilmington students between Red Clay and Brandywine school districts; consolidating Brandywine, Red Clay and the City of Wilmington into one district or combining all four northern New Castle County districts into one.

The hybrid formula under consideration would see public schools prioritize low income, special education and multilingual learner students.

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

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.

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.