Delaware Charter School News: As School Closes Abruptly for Low Enrollment, State Receives Fed Grant to Expand
In examining the two most recent charter school stories on Delaware Public Media (“Delaware’s Source for NPR News”), I was taken with the irony of charter school reality.
The most recent story as of this writing is dated October 12, 2018, and is entitled, “First State Hopes to Expand Charter Seats with Federal Grant.” An excerpt:
The Delaware Department of Education has received a $10.4 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education to improve the state’s charter school system.Officials say the funding will support sharing best practices between charter schools and other public schools and strengthening the charter school authorization process. It will also provide sub-grants to new charter schools for planning and existing charters for expansion.
Thus, even though there are only so many students in the state (which means that increased charter presence not only puts charters into increased competition with “other” public schools), expanding the charter presence could well put existing charter schools in competition with each other for student enrollment (and, by extension, funding).
Even so, the unlikely line about “sharing best practices” is included, even though competition dictates every school for itself in order to survive (and to possibly figure out how to lure your students to my school).
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