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The following article is provided by the Caesar Rodney Institute, a Delaware-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) public policy research organization.

It comes from a Policy Center Director who works to help Delawareans by providing fact-based analysis in four key areas:

education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.

Change the System not the Standards!

Change the System not the Standards!

By Ron Russo, CRI Executive Director

3/28/2019

 

In a recent guest column, Atnre Alleyne (Executive Director of DelawareCAN) identified the obstacles faced by many students trying to gain admission to some of the state’s best schools.  Nonpublic schools had high tuitions, high performing charter schools had admission preferences, and successful traditional public schools were located in areas with expensive housing.  Even if the obstacles were removed there wouldn’t be enough seats for everyone.

 

The solution is to take what makes the successful schools successful and insert it into all traditional schools thereby making an excellent education available to all students.  Such was the rationale for education reform in 1995 proposed by Governor Carper, the Department of Public Instruction, and a consortium of six businesses led by the DuPont Company.  It was to be a systemic change that empowered each school to have local control (site-based management) over operational issues (finances, personnel, curriculum, etc.) with school boards limited to oversight and providing requested assistance.

 

This is the essence of the BOLD PLAN, a draft piece of legislation that has been provided to Representative Earl Jaques, Chair of the House Education Committee.  Watch for it and get ready to make a difference for every student and for our state.

 
 
 

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The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a Delaware-based, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research organization. As a nonpartisan public policy think tank, CRI provides fact-based analysis in four key areas: education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.

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