On Monday, I released the second part of my plan to improve our public schools.  The first part of the plan involved spending our education dollars more efficiently, to ensure that our education funds find their way into the classroom.  The second part of the plan discusses how to spend those dollars: by making our starting teacher salaries more competitive with surrounding states’ salaries, controlling class size, providing teachers with incentives to excel and teach in difficult schools, and emphasizing professional development.  My opponent responded by saying he also thought we should do all those things, but had decided that we couldn’t, so he proposed as an alternative to post school district invoices on the internet.

I think the idea that any problem can be solved by creating a web site is charmingly ‘90s—it makes me want to crank up the Backstreet Boys and over-invest in an internet IPO.  But we all know that making Delaware’s public schools the best in America will require a much more serious commitment than that.  I am a product of Delaware’s public schools, and I believe in them.  My opponent may have given up on them, but I will not.