Speak Up: Commission backs ‘hybrid formula’ to boost education funding

Delaware’s Public Education Funding Commission voted June 2 in favor of a “hybrid formula” that would provide greater funding to school systems with higher student needs. The current formula allocates resources based on a school’s population and its special education status, but nothing allows the state to place additional weight on students’ income, multilingual learner and foster statuses, officials said.

• They don’t need funding. As of right now, we are one of the top states for spending per student and one of the lowest in return. — Howard Brobst
• How about a little discipline in schools? Teach the young’uns respect and personal responsibility, something missing with most of the parents. — Robert Beckman