First State Educate address how Delaware school districts should be funded
DELAWARE. – Three counties in the First State are undergoing a property reassessment process for the first time in decades, which has created an air of uncertainty.
With funding being put in question after a school district in New Castle County operated under large deficits for several years.
Local school boards, county councils, and General Assembly have assured Delaware they will take corrective measures.
Experts say financial reporting across all 19 school boards should be revised.
According to First State Educate’s Executive Director Julia Keleher, all 19 districts should fully vet funding formulas before they become standard.
“An issue was discovered in 1 district, where the financial projections and the actuals weren’t reconciled,” said Keleher. “An idea of a new funding formula will increase the discretionary decision-making that local school boards make over how education funds are allocated to schools.”
