07/25/2026
Three of the New Castle County districts plan to raise local property taxes later this year. Why?
The districts seem incapable of managing a multimillion budget with costs rising much faster than inflation. Rising costs that come in hiring more non-instructional staff with their generous benefits. Special education costs also exploding. We need to better understand it all before education funding reform, which is projected to cost $600 million more in education spending. (And Delaware's enrollment expected to be flat in 5 years due to declining birth rates. This is an opportunity every school board in Delaware must tackle now.