Weekly Message
- Governor's Weekly Message: Preparing Our Workforce for Jobs of the Future Governor Markell highlights statewide efforts to ensure Delaware’s workforce is trained and qualified for the ever-changing job market. May 17, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Preparing Our Workforce for Jobs of the Future We are passionately focused on ensuring Delaware has a world class education system, but we also know learning does not end on graduation day.May 17, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Ensuring Equality and Safety for Future Generations This was a great week for Delaware. We got things done. While the federal government continues to bicker and cling to partisan politics, here in Delaware we’re shining a spotlight on what can be accomplished when individuals come together for the greater good of our communities – regardless of their political affiliation.May 10, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Ensuring Equality and Safety for Future Generations In his weekly message, Governor Markell recaps progress made related to marriage equality and gun safety efforts in Delaware this week.May 10, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Connecting Communities, Improving Quality of Life In his weekly message, Governor Markell touts Delaware's ranking by the League of American Bicyclists as the 5th most bicycle-friendly state in the country, ranking number one in the northeastern United States.May 3, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Connecting Communities, Improving Quality of Life This week, Delaware was named by the League of American Bicyclists as the 5th most bicycle-friendly state in the country, ranking number one in the northeastern US. That’s something we should feel really good about – because it shows the progress we’ve been making to expand trails and pathways and ultimately, leave the state better than we found it for our kids and grandchildren.May 3, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Preparing Our Students by Supporting Our Educators In his weekly message, Governor Markell discusses the importance of enhancing educator recruitment and retention efforts as well as the increased use of data – not only to ensure Delaware has high quality teachers but also to help teachers track student progress.April 26, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Preparing Our Students by Supporting Our Educators The future success of our state is dependent on how well we educate today’s youth – and their academic success is dependent, in part, on quality educators. As we continue to raise our academic standards for students statewide, we are also enhancing our recruitment and retention efforts for educators. April 26, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Investing in Early Childhood Education The most important investments that we make as a society are those in helping our children get off to a strong start in life. We’ve stepped up our focus in this area, leveraging state and federal investments here in Delaware over the past several years.April 19, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Investing in Early Childhood Education In his weekly message, Governor Markell highlights collaborative efforts underway in early childhood education by elected officials, business leaders and community partners to ensure our children begin on the right path for learning and life.April 19, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Marriage Equality – Writing the Next Chapter in History Earlier this week, I was honored to join with hundreds of students at the University of Delaware for a rally on marriage equality. As you can see from this footage – the atmosphere was energizing. It has been remarkable to be engaged in the fast-moving transformation of public opinion on the issue of marriage equality – momentum that can be attributed, in large part, to our youth. Much as the civil rights and women’s liberation movements served as a call-to-action for young adults of the 60s and 70s, debating issues like marriage equality and gender identity will become defining moments in their lifetime. And yet, for many of them, the current debate leaves them perplexed. April 12, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Marriage Equality – Writing the Next Chapter in History In his weekly message, Governor Markell talks about the current momentum regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage in Delaware and the important role young people play in moving the issue forward.April 12, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Protecting the Environment Through Education Initiatives Two of Delaware’s 2013 Green Ribbon winners are from the Red Clay Consolidated School District: Conrad Schools of Science and Richardson Park Elementary in partnership with Richardson Park Learning Center. These schools are part of Red Clay’s district-wide energy-efficiency program, the first of its kind in Delaware.April 5, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Protecting the Environment Through Education Initiatives As a guest host for the Governor's weekly message, filmed at Richardson Park Elementary School in Wilmington, Mark Murphy, Secretary for the Department of Education, spoke about Delaware's first Green Ribbon Award winners.April 5, 2013
- Governor's Weekly Message: Increasing Independence for Individuals with Disabilities As a guest host for the Governor’s weekly message, filmed at the Victoria Mews Community Building in Newark, Anas Ben-Addi, Director of the Delaware State Housing Authority, highlights the recent award of federal funding that will help people with disabilities live independently in the community.March 29, 2013