Last night, I wrote about how Delaware Secretary of Education and Brandywine Superintendent Dr. Mark Holodick broke the law by brokering a Memorandum of Understand with the Buccini-Pollen Group. It turns out Bunting and the Delaware Department of Education snuck in a “Secretary-Only” regulation which means the State Board of Education did not have to vote on it.
Regulation 415, which covers Voluntary School Assessments was never even brought up by the State Board of Education in their meetings. They always put Secretary-Only regulations as a topic on their agendas, even if they don’t vote on them.
Bunting and Holodick still broke the law with the MOU because the Regulation wasn’t finalized until Mid-September of this year. They acted in haste for some reason and finalized their own MOU in anticipation of the Regulation. They made a huge mistake with that MOU and they should be held accountable.
How did Susan Bunting amass so much power in less than two years? Why is she abusing that authority to the best of her ability? Why isn’t she being held accountable for her decade-long knowledge of Patrick Miller’s theft of funds in Indian River School District? These are very dark days at the Delaware DOE. Led by a woman with the morality of a snake.
Our Delaware General Assembly needs to change the way regulations happen in this state. That is where a ton of shady stuff goes down. We have too many state agencies that circumvent the Delaware General Assembly and do what they damn well please! Enough! They also need to bring down the authority of the Secretary of Education in Delaware. There is far too much the Secretary can do as one person without any true meaningful public input.
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