Final Delaware School Board Filings

The deadline to file for Delaware school board seats passed half an hour ago.  This is the final list based on the New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Department of Elections websites.  If anything changes, I will update this list.  The biggest races appear to be in Caesar Rodney, Cape Henlopen, Capital, Lake Forest, and Laurel.  If it is in green, there is a race!  Best of luck to all the candidates, and I guess congrats are in order for those who ran unopposed!  Shameless plug: I am on this list…

Delaware School Board Elections:

 

Elections: May 10th

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Appoquinimink: Richard Forsten (5 years)

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Brandywine: John Skrobot (District F- 5 years)

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Caesar Rodney: Mark Dyer (5 years)

Caesar Rodney: Dana LeCompte (5 years)

Caesar Rodney: Michael Marasco (5 years) 

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Cape Henlopen: Camilla Conlon (5 years)

Cape Henlopen: Janis Hanwell (5 years)

Cape Henlopen: Heather Ingerski (5 years)

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Cape Henlopen: Teresa Carey (Area B-2 years)

Cape Henlopen: Jessica Tyndall (Area B-2 years)

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Capital: Chanda Jackson (5 years)

Capital: Kevin Ohlandt (5 years)

Capital: Andres Ortiz (5 years)

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Christina: Margaret Mason (District B- 5 years)

Christina: David Ressler (District B- 5 years)

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Christina: Desiree Brady (District F- 5 years)

Christina: Elizabeth Paige (District F- 5 years)

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Colonial: Timothy Suber (District D- 4 years)

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Colonial: Joseph Laws (District F- 5 years)

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Delmar: Farrah Morelli (5 years)

Delmar: Andrew Rementer (5 years)

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Indian River: Gerald Penden (District 2, 4 years)

Indian River: Heather Statler (District 3, 3 years)

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Lake Forest: Austin Auen (5 years)

Lake Forest: Earle Dempsey (5 years)

Lake Forest: Lendon Dennis (5 years)

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Laurel: John Bowden (5 years)

Laurel: Shane McCarty (5 years)

Laurel: Christie Shirey (5 years)

Laurel: Patrick Vanderslice (5 years)

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Milford: Renate Wiley (Area C- 5 years)

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Red Clay Consolidated: Joseph Weeks (District F- 5 years)

Red Clay Consolidated: Faith Newton (District F- 5 years)

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Seaford: Dianne Abrams (5 years)

Seaford: Kimberly Hopkins (5 years)

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Smyrna: Kathryn O’Connell (5 years)

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Woodbridge: John Barr (5 years)

Woodbridge: Alberta Smith (5 years)

 

Marc Tucker and Common Core Fuel Injection

deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

On March 03, 2016, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), Marc Tucker, published an EdWeek opinion piece entitled, “Why the Common Core Will Be Declared a Failure.” (Based on the link, Tucker’s original title was, “Why the Common Core Will Be Declared a Failure and Why That Will Be Dead Wrong.”)

In short, according to Tucker, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will fail because it is so advanced that the rest of the education system to which it must belong is bumbling by comparison and must be brought into line for CCSS to succeed.

  Marc Tucker

To illustrate his point, Tucker uses an automotive metaphor whereby CCSS is “a 2016 fuel injector” that has been installed in the education system of “a 1910 Model T”:

Imagine that you have in your hand a set of fuel injectors for a modern automobile.  These…

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