Twice in the past year, residents rejected school board proposals for improvements. For the students' sake we hope they won't do the same thing today. Woodbridge is a rural area straddling the Kent - Sussex county line with a growing population. Its schools are bursting. Children are in portable classrooms.
Science labs are inadequate.
Schools are organized in a way that hampers instruction. Earlier proposals sought to provide facilities that most districts consider minimal. But voters said no. Today's referendum is a bare-bones plan to increase the size of the Early Childhood Center in Bridgeville, so it can become of functioning middle school. It is a sensible idea that would let district officials organize education the way virtually all other districts in Delaware and elsewhere do.