Milford School District this week voted to lowerĀ the school tax rate in both Kent and Sussex counties for the eighth year in a row. The Kent County school tax rate from $1.6593 per $100 of assessed property value to $0.2807 per $100 value after receiving reassessed property values from that county. The rate in Sussex also dropped from $4.6503 …
One might find it hard to believe that laundry, driverās ed and athletic travel and equipment are considered āinstructional costsā in Delaware public schools, but they are.Ā Instruction is one of nine categories of funding for the First Stateās public schools.Ā It makes up 55.28% of the spending for the 23-24 school year, totaling $1,584,970,346, according to the Delaware State …
A proposed way to teach through āself-directed student learning timeā was met with criticism from several members of the Milford School District. Four of those learning days were proposed in the 2024-2025 academic year calendar presented to the districtās school board during its monthly meeting Monday night. āI’m not an educator but I am a parent,ā said Board President Scott …
The new Milford middle school, a key component of Milford School Districtās strategic plan to accommodate rapid enrollment growth, will soon be getting a formal name. The school, under construction at 612 Lakeview Avenue in Milford, is expected to open in fall 2025. It is part of the five-year Milford School District Strategic Plan, adopted in 2023. The district is …
A human resources director for the largest school district in Sussex County shocked a House Education Committee hearing in April when she told them about 300 of its 1,000 educators are off on any given school day. About 800 of those educators are teachers, and their absenteeism rains down problems for the district, said Celeste Bunting, director of human resources …
Residents of the Milford School District are officially getting a tax decrease for the seventh straight year. After the districtās chief financial officer Sara Hale presented the tax proposal for the 2023-24 school year at the school boardās June meeting (to much applause and gratitude from members), the board voted unanimously Monday night to approve next yearās tax rate.Ā āSince …
Residents in the Milford School District could have yet another tax decrease next year, which would be the seventh straight year the district has approved a decrease. Sara Hale, chief operating officer of the district, presented school tax rate data to the districtās school board Monday reflecting a tax decrease of .6% for next year. Most notably, the district is …
