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State sets its course with Moyer response

JULY 18, 2010

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Reopening Moyer Academy Charter School this fall has implications beyond the greater potential for quality education for students whose repeated academic failure led to the school's closure.

The federal government has vested much confidence in Delaware as the lead winner in the first round of the Race to the Top education grants and its approach to education reform.

The Department of Education's evidenced-based proposal won a surprising buy-in from the state's teachers union.

And just two months ago, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed Gov. Jack Markell to the National Assessment Governing Board. This is the panel responsible for deciding the structure of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation's report card given to students.

Indeed, Delaware is center stage as this country decides how to restructure reading, writing and math in and outside traditional classrooms. And with an eye on global competitiveness.

So it's important that DOE attack the challenges the state's other public schools face as zealously as it tackled the problems at Moyer Academy.

As News Journal education reporter Nichole Dobo points out, Moyer Academy was closed for more than