“Why are we doing this?”
The House Education Committee had the Delaware Department of Education at several of their meetings this year, to explain the ESEA waivers and Race To The Top spending. At the March 10th House Education meeting, Delaware State Rep. and Chair of the committee Earl Jaques and several State Representatives slammed the DOE on many occasions. Ironically, this was around the same time Jaques was blasting parents over opting their children out of the Smarter Balanced Assessment.
“He explained that the committee seldom makes requests as serious as this, and he asked DDOE to take it seriously.“
It is painfully obvious the Delaware DOE likes to deflect from questions by either blaming the US DOE or stating they will have to get back to the committee. They are notorious for this type of action. Which is painfully obvious from the February 18th meeting when they presented DOE accountability for Race To The Top funding to the committee.
“Vice-Chair Williams then asked how the $5.8 million of “unspecified spending” was used. DDOE said that they do not have details of those expenditures and will have to report back.”
While the focus was not on the DOE at the March 18th meeting, there was very interesting conversation around school nurses, locked doors, and implementation of rules and regulations.
Just before they reconvened in mid-March I emailed Kim Williams for a status on the answers DDOE promised to deliver during these committee hearings. She said they were ‘getting back to her’.
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I got the same response today!
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Sounds like “business as usual” at DOE, at least at their leadership levels.
They act with impunity, even towards the elected representatives.
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Kevin took excellent note of that meeting too. We have plenty of ammunition to hold both the DDOE and the committee members to getting this information out to the public. I guess the legis doesn’t have subpoena powers but it seems like that step should be coming.
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Hey, can the General Assembly de-fund DOE ?….LOL
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