Why Should Delaware Care? Gov. Matt Meyer included the goal of reforming the state’s public education funding formula before July during his “State of the State” address. But that goal has become more unlikely, as the commission tasked with studying Delaware’s public education funding formula did not vote to move forward with its new hybrid framework on Monday.
Plans to reform Delaware’s archaic public education funding system are moving forward – and schools with large numbers of low-income students, such as East Side Charter in Wilmington, may benefit the most.
On Monday, the state’s Public Education Funding Commission, which is in charge of recommending how dollars are distributed to Delaware schools, heard a presentation for a school funding model that would increase the state’s contribution to East Side Charter by $1.2 million, or a 27% jump…