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Christina School District Could Lose $2.3 Million in State Aid

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The Department of Education has threatened to deny $2.3 million next year to the Christina School District.

It involves a disagreement over plans to improve the District’s struggling schools.

In a letter sent yesterday the Department said the district had declined to take part in the statewide bonus program meant to reward top-performing teachers at high needs schools and failed to come up with an approved alternative.

The district contends says it never committed to participating in the program and that the district has a solution.

School Board president Fred Polaski said that he was concerned about not knowing there was a problem and plans to talk with state officials about the confusion.

 

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.