Thanks to Melissa Steele for her recent article describing what our local legislators feel are the important issues for 2024. Her reporting shared with our community much of what many of us who care about education already knew, which is that not one of our local legislators is focused on the instructional and classroom needs of Cape students, much less Delaware students.
There is something terribly wrong with priorities when politicians are given the opportunity to share what they feel is important and don’t even mention students or schoolteachers. In an over 700-word article focused on the upcoming legislative session, teachers and students were not mentioned at all. Not once.
As usual, Sen. Russ Huxtable didn’t take long to start his canned elevator speech on the need for more affordable housing, which seems to be about the only thing he discusses most days.
With the Delaware Department of Education encompassing at least a billion-dollar allotment of what is expected to be a state budget more than $5 billion in the next fiscal year, it would be helpful to hear that Sen. Huxtable has some thoughts on a key line item funded by taxpayers, and will stop ignoring our schoolkids and teachers.
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