Archive for the Education Updates Category

Family Voices: Parent to Parent Workshop

Kent and Sussex Parents Are you a parent of a child with ASD? Please share your invaluable experience! Come out to our 1 day Parent to Parent Workshop! Become a Certified Support Parent     If you would like to train to become aSupport Parent and share your knowledge, experiences, and support with someone newer to this journey, please register for this specialized training. (Please see the attached flyer.)   Wednesday,  April 15, 2015   9 A.M.-3 P.M. The ASD-P2P Training will be one-day training. Autism Delaware Office 17517 Nassau Commons Blvd. Unit #1    Lewes, DE 19958   Registration is required as materials are sent out in

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Standardized testing plays over-sized role in the Delaware public education system

  Dover, Del. April 1st — The Delaware State Education Association (DSEA) is concerned about the growing amounts of time, money and energy spent on high-stakes and standardized testing, as well as the use of student performance on these tests to make major decisions affecting individual students, educators, and schools. The overreliance on high-stakes and standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems continues to undermine educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools.  It hampers educators’ efforts to focus on the skills and knowledge that will allow students to thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy.  DSEA

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DOE REQUESTS ONE-YEAR DELAY OF STATE ASSESSMENT IMPACT ON TEACHER EVALUATION

  Dover – As Delaware introduces a new state test this spring, the Department of Education (DOE) is proposing to request a further delay the federal requirement that educator evaluations use results from these assessments. Last year, DOE requested and obtained a delay for the test’s first year, recognizing the challenges of switching to Smarter Balanced – a more thorough assessment aligned to the Common Core college and career ready standards. The proposal to the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. DOE) will be considered by the State Board of Education (SBOE) on Thursday.   Several legislators – including the chairs of the

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Exciting New Opportunities with PTA: Treasurer Needed

Delaware PTA currently has an opening for a state treasurer.  If you or someone you know would like to join our State Board and help support the work we do at the state level – let us know!! Why we need you: We need you to use your experience and attention to detail to look after the financial systems of Delaware PTA What skills do you need? We’re looking for volunteers with bookkeeping skills or with experience of working with financial systems. Accuracy and attention to detail is a must, plus basic numeracy skills. We are looking for someone that can be responsive to the board and

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Hope Street Group 2015 National Teacher Fellowship App Now Open

    Hope Street Group National Teachers Fellows serve as spokespeople for educators’ ideas and perspectives. They have opportunities to broaden their understanding of national reform efforts; learn media skills; and receive continuous support in writing blog posts, op-eds, and letters to the editor. HSG National Teacher Fellows work with the U.S. Department of Education and other national leaders as well as their colleagues to develop strategic, practical solutions to address a myriad of public policy challenges related to education. Fellows are provided with the tools to gather the voice of their peers through rigorous surveys and focus groups, which

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Attorney General Denn Updates School Compliance with Delaware Bullying Laws

WILMINGTON, DE – Attorney General Matt Denn released the second annual report on compliance by Delaware schools with state anti-bullying laws today. The report analyzes the implementation by the Department of Education, school districts, and charter schools of significant changes that were made to the state’s bullying statutes in 2012. The report finds that the state’s efforts to require schools to communicate with parents about bullying incidents are showing success, but that the state’s evidence-gathering practices regarding bullying are in need of reform and that school districts and charter schools are not consistently complying with their obligation to direct students

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DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON DRAFT ESEA FLEXIBILITY PLAN

Dover – The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) invites the public to make comments on the latest draft of its request for a 3-year extension of its current Flexibility Waiver from certain provisions of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The draft can be found on line at http://www.doe.k12.de.us/Page/1942.   The DDOE applied for ESEA Flexibility from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) in February 2012. The DDOE request was approved on May 29, 2012. The DDOE later applied for a one-year extension that was granted on July 31, 2014.   Last November, the USDOE gave states the

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