Delaware State Board of Education overview
Statewide education policy and charter oversight, with local implementation and record gaps made clear.
Delaware’s State Board of Education is a statewide public authority, not a local school district. State law establishes seven voting members and two nonvoting members; the Department of Education supplies staff support. Voting members are appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation. Local districts and charter schools carry out many policies and services. The Board’s reviewed records include regulations, charter decisions, statewide planning and some district-specific matters.
Title 14 § 104 provides for seven voting members appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation, plus annually appointed nonvoting student and former Teacher of the Year members. The current official roster lists six voting members, labels the seventh voting seat vacant, and lists two nonvoting members.
The Board considers education regulations and charter matters. For student phone use, current state law requires each district and charter school to adopt and publish its own policy; this statute does not create a single uniform classroom rule.
The Department of Education’s K–12 guidance is intended to inform local district and charter policies. The reviewed record does not establish a State Board regulation adopting one statewide AI classroom policy.
Title 14 § 104 requires the Department of Education to provide the Board staff support and assigns the Board an advisory role on Department operating and capital budget requests. The July minutes list a $70,000 FY27 Board budget, but do not identify a funding account/source; they also list $46,841.23 carryover and a $3,100 encumbrance while the stated total excludes the encumbrance. These figures do not describe statewide K–12 expenditures or per-pupil spending.
The meeting record documents Board decisions and planned work, but it does not substitute for district or school implementation records. Several later 2026 meeting dates have agendas without minutes in the reviewed set.
The Board meeting record lists this amount but does not identify the funding account/source. The minutes also list $46,841.23 carryover and $3,100 encumbrance; their stated $116,841.23 total equals carryover plus FY27 budget and excludes encumbrance.
The Board approved PMG as the strategic-planning consultant on April 16, 2026. An October 9 workshop agenda scheduled the first strategic-plan convening and public comment. The available agenda does not establish what happened at the workshop or that a final plan was adopted.
The reviewed minutes and agenda do not identify the consultant contract amount or the funding source.
The seven voting State Board seats are filled by gubernatorial appointment with Senate confirmation under Title 14; two additional members are nonvoting annual appointees. No public election for State Board membership was identified in the official election materials reviewed. No future appointment date is posted in the reviewed record.
Official source · verified Oct 25, 2026
Based on official Delaware State Board agendas and minutes, the state code, the current Department of Education generative-AI guidance, the official Board governance pages, and an occurrence-by-occurrence review of 13 meeting dates from November 2025 through October 2026.
We read every agenda, packet, recording, and set of minutes, and write up the decisions that affect families — each one linked to the document it came from.
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