Guarantee universal pre-K for all 3- and 4-year-olds to ensure every child can read by age 6.
Provide universal free school breakfast and lunch to ensure every child is ready to learn.
Enact the recommendations of the Assessment of Delaware Public School Funding report to adopt an equitable school funding formula based upon student needs (students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, or students with disabilities).
Increase pay for all educators and remove disincentives from working in historically under-resourced schools.
Invest in community schools with wrap-around services, including healthcare and trauma-informed mental health services at all levels, intensive tutoring support, and before/after school programming.
Ensure all public schools have safe drinking water (no lead pipes), clean air (no mold, asbestos, or particulate matter), and modern equipment for science and technology.
Protect all students from any form of discrimination and ensure that all schools prohibit discrimination based upon sexual orientation and gender identity.
Modernize Delaware’s infrastructure to compete in the 21st century, including multi-modal transportation systems, clean energy, clean water, school upgrades, ports, and statewide high-speed broadband – and ensure that at least 40% of all investments are in historically underserved communities (Justice40) and that public investments utilize project labor agreements.
Attract and leverage the historic federal investments of the Biden Administration to create 40,000 well-paying jobs in sectors where Delaware has a comparative advantage, including clean energy, financial technology, life sciences, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, semiconductors, agriculture, tourism.
Build an inclusive culture of entrepreneurship by retaining and attracting talent and investment that will leverage our existing strengths in private-sector and academic innovation, including unleashing our universities to commercialize cutting-edge research.
Be purposeful and support the creation of Black and brown owned businesses and ventures that will build wealth in historically marginalized communities, including revitalizing communities in which government has historically underinvested across Greater Wilmington, including Route 9, Riverside, Southbridge, East Side, West Side, and Claymont.
Retain and attract young talent through placemaking that enhances recreational, ecological, and cultural amenities, expands accessibility and mobility, embraces diversity, and improves land use decision-making to create an authentic sense of place.
Prepare large brownfield sites for redevelopment to attract clean manufacturing or industrial uses, rather than more warehouses.
Reorganize Delaware’s workforce development ecosystem to ensure efficient coordination across the Workforce Development Board, apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs, technical certifications and degrees, university offerings, and employer-led programs – to ensure all workers have access to the jobs of the future.
Improve permitting efficiency and predictability, while ensuring transparency and robust public input.
Ensure returning Delawareans have access to job training and gainful employment by reconstituting the Department of Corrections as the Department of Rehabilitation.
Increase the availability of affordable housing by building 25,000 additional housing units and stabilizing rent increases.
Expand access to affordable quality healthcare by attracting more doctors to reduce wait times, investing in wellness, containing costs, increasing competition through a public option (Medicaid buy-in), ensuring equitable maternal and infant health outcomes, and empowering more Delawareans to age in place.
Improve access to affordable quality childcare by updating reimbursement rates (enacting Universal Pre-K will also help relieve some pressure on our childcare system).
Significantly reduce child poverty through an expansion and refundability of the child tax credit, childcare tax credit, earned income tax credit, and standard deduction for lower-income families.
Ensure all Delawareans can earn and use paid sick leave and safety leave, while also making sure that all families can access the benefits of paid family policy starting in 2025.
Support workers right to organize and join labor unions and oppose efforts to impose right-to-work, weaken collective bargaining, or undermine prevailing wage.
Index the minimum wage to ensure it keeps up with the cost-of-living and eliminate loopholes.
Become the First State to achieve universal access to high-speed broadband.
Act on climate by becoming the First State to achieve 100% clean electricity by deploying offshore wind (1.5+ GW) and solar (500+ MW).
Confront ongoing environmental injustices to achieve clean air, clean water, and healthy soil in historically overburdened fenceline and frontline communities, prevent new sacrifice zones by evaluating cumulative impacts in permitting decisions, and enact the Justice40 recommendations.
Be the First State to achieve net-zero by deploying green hydrogen and electrification technologies to repower the difficult to decarbonize industrial, heavy transportation, and agricultural sectors.
Restore our natural defenses to bolster the resilience of communities to flooding, extreme weather, and sea-level rise.
Significantly expand access to parks and wildlife refuges, accelerate habitat restoration projects, and conserve more open space to enhance communities and recover full diversity of wildlife and native plants.
Prohibit discrimination based upon sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Eliminate cash bail to decriminalize poverty and ensure that mental health and substance abuse challenges are addressed through treatment, not incarceration.
Enshrine voting rights, including early voting, mail-in voting, same-day registration, and permanent no-excuse absentee voting.
Adopt a Green Amendment to codify every Delawarean's right to clean water, healthy air, and safe soils.
Ensure that all Delawareans and visitors have the right to access comprehensive healthcare services without fear of criminalization or invasion of privacy.
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