A bill to increase reporting on literacy testing schools conduct for K-3 students got house approval.

Two bills to begin efforts to school funding reform to Delaware get their first hearing at Leg Hall. Both bills now head to the Senate Finance Committee.

A Monday night shooting at Delaware State University leaves one person injured.

Delaware’s institutions of higher education made their pitches for funding bumps to the Joint Committee on Capital Improvement.

Lawmakers ask about IT upgrades, money for school improvements, updates on lead water testing.

Delaware took a significant step toward revamping the way it funds its public schools.The Public Education Funding Commission formally voted on its recommendations for a new hybrid model which will increase per-pupil funding for multilingual learners and students from low-income homes.The General Assembly will now comsider bills reflecting these changes and how to implement them.They’'re sponsored by the commission’s chair State Sen. Laura Sturgeon, who joined Delaware Public Media’s state politics reporter Bente Bouthier this week to discuss this new education funding plan.

After two years of study and deliberation, Delaware’s Public Education Funding Commission officially voted on its recommendations to rework public school funding.

Michael Bleile, previously Delmar’s Supervisor of Curriculum, takes over a district facing looming financial challenges.

The change would have relocated Meadowood, a special needs program that in part relies on ADA-compliant infrastructure already in place at McKean.

The Consortium originally planned for a deadline this summer but moved the date to the end of the year to construct a more impressive document.