Year: 2022

Senator Sturgeon introduces legislation to improve reading instruction

DOVER — Career educator and Senate Education Committee Chair Sen. Laura Sturgeon, D-Brandywine Hundred, this week introduced new legislation to strengthen literacy among Delaware students.  Evidence-based reading instruction, or the “science of reading,” focuses on understanding the cognitive learning processes […]

House, Senate Lawmakers and Governor Carney Announce Plan to Provide Direct Payments to Delaware Taxpayers

Rebate program would send $300 to every state taxpayer this spring DOVER – As Delaware emerges from a two-year pandemic with families facing generationally high inflation, Democratic and Republican lawmakers and Governor John Carney announced a plan Thursday that would […]

Sen. Lockman, Rep. Johnson Introduce Revised LEOBOR Reform Bill

DOVER – Nearly two years after the Delaware Legislative Black Caucus announced its Justice For All Agenda in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Senate Majority Whip Elizabeth “Tizzy” Lockman and Delaware Legislative Black Caucus Chair Rep. Kendra Johnson on […]

Senate Democrats’ statement on the passing of Justice Randy Holland

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | March 16, 2022Contact: Scott Goss (302) 744-4180 The Delaware Senate Majority Caucus, led by Judiciary Committee Chair Kyle Evans Gay, President Pro Tempore Dave Sokola, Majority Leader Bryan Townsend, and Majority Whip Elizabeth Lockman, issued the […]