A new commission created to overhaul Delaware’s public education funding formula may already lack the political will to make big changes. The Public Education Funding Commission started meeting last month.
Task force members have already started pushing back on the timeline for issuing final recommendations, frustrating at least one education advocate who previously sued the state. American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Legal Director Dwayne Bensing said officials must act urgently to fix a failing system, including adding hundreds of millions of dollars more in funding.
