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Chris Coons and John Carney - both victors!

November 3, 2010... Chris Coons our recommended candidate, beats Christine O'Donnell by 57% to 40%.

In what some consider a surprise move, the DSEA Interview Team and the DSEA Executive Board recommended long before the September Primary that DSEA members consider casting their vote on November 2 for Chris Coons.

At a May 14, 2010 news conference held in front of the historic P.S. DuPont Elementary School in Wilmington, DSEA and the Coons campaign held a joint news conference to announce DSEA's support for Coons to represent Delawareans in the U.S. Senate.

President Diane Donohue explains why we recommend Chris Coons:

The poet Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
With our recommendation of Chris Coons for the United States Senate, DSEA has started down a road with our friend. It is not a well traveled road…yet; but we are proud to lead the way, and we will make all the difference.
This is a race for US Senate, but the lives of local educators will be impacted.
Last year, federal legislation was very important to us. We needed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to save jobs. Around the nation, about 300,000 education jobs were saved by ARRA, including hundreds here in Delaware. We did not get Congressman Castle’s vote on ARRA.
We needed federal health care reform. As we speak, Delaware educators’ health benefits are under attack. We did not get Congressman Castle’s vote on that legislation either.
We needed the Employee Free Choice Act to secure collective bargaining rights for others. Congressman Castle refused to support this.
(pause)Now, we need the Keep Our Educators Working Act, and Chris Coons supports us.
Delaware educators are dealing with Race To The Top and Chris Coons is knowledgeable and engaged on the issue.
Delaware and the rest of the nation are in a deep recession. Chris Coons has experience dealing with the tough decisions around budget cuts. He has proven that fiscal constraint can be laced with contemporary management and compassion.
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act is being rewritten and Chris Coons is up to the task and on our side. We need someone that we do not have to move to our position because he is already there walking the road beside us.
Perhaps we have surprised some with our recommendation. Perhaps, we even surprised ourselves a little. Some people will say, ‘Chris Coons has ideas and energy, but does he have a chance?’
 We are educators. It is our business to believe in ideas and energy and give chance a hand up…that’s who we are."

For U.S. Congress, John Carney, also recommended by DSEA, wins over Glenn Urquhart, 56.7% to 41%.

"I want to thank DSEA and the hundreds of its members around our state that supported our camaign for Congress.  I am honored to be Delaware's Congressman-elect and I will not forget that I was sent to Washington to represent Delawareans, especially the children who attend our schools.

"I am committed to building a world-class education system in our state and nation, and we simply cannot do that without making sure we support oureducators, who are on the front line of this effort. Because of that, we appropriately expect a lot of our teachers.  We need to make sure we give them the tools and support they need to meet those expectations.

"Thanks for giving me the opportunity to work with teachers around our state as we try to create a brighter future for our children and Delaware."

John Carney's plan for improving education focuses on a commitment to the classroom. He believes that real, positive change happens at the individual level, between the teacher and the student.

This is why he supports the increased time for teachers to plan and collaborate with colleagues required by "Race to the Top."

He also supports alternative compensation and expanded professional development opportunities for teachers.

He very clearly does not support the overly proscriptive aspects of No Child Left Behind and will support giviing states much for flexibility under the next version of the federal education laws, ESEA and IDEA.

A dedicated public servant, he has spent his adult life helping make Delaware better. In 2002, while Lt. Governor under Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, he launched the Models of Excellence in Education program to identify practices in schools that have raised student achievement. He also created the lifetstyle initiate, The Lt. Governor's Challenge, to encourage Delawarean's to be more active, and address the state's high rate of chronic diseases. Almost 40,000 people have taken "The Challenge" over the past six years, including 25,000 children.

A board member of the Hope Commission in Wilmington, he would like to create an Education Advocacy Group within that organization, to help communities become stronger, so that families thrive and children have a better chance to do well in school.

"Education today is a personal imperative but today, it is also an economic imperative. Where will jobs be? what will jobs be? We need to bring them here. We have srious challenges facing us, and we need dedicated public servants to do this hard work, in a bi-partisan way, never putting political party first but putting people first."

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