Friday, March 12, 2021
Editor’s note: Ashley Murray did not respond to a request for comment for this story. The story has been updated to include Murray’s response via comments on Cape Gazette’s Facebook page. The Cape Gazette published all submitted letters to the editor in favor of Murray’s candidacy.
Despite a signed admission that she violated Delaware Code and nursing board regulations by stealing narcotics from patients, Ashley Murray remains a candidate for the Cape school board election, set for Tuesday, May 11.
While she was a registered nurse working for Delaware Hospice under her maiden name, Ashley C. Wyatt, Murray’s license was suspended in 2010 for three years.
Meet the candidates: Sussex School board elections 2021
Cape Henlopen, Delmar, Laurel and Woodbridge all have contested races.
Indian River has no expiring school board member terms this year and will not hold an election, while Milford and Seaford will automatically elect new members who are running unopposed.
In Milford, Adam Brownstein and Scott L. Fitzgerald will join the school board. Brownstein will serve a five-year term for District C. Fitzgerald was appointed in January after Judith Purcell resigned due to a move. With no one else filing for the seat, he ll finish serving a one-year term for District D.
In Seaford, Kimberly Hopkins is running unopposed for the at-large seat and will serve a five-year term.
Marilyn F. Booker
What are your children being taught in the Cape Henlopen School District schools?
I’ll confess that I have no children in any Delaware school. However, that doesn’t preclude my interest and concern about the content of the lessons your children and grandchildren are receiving. Ashley Murray is running for the at-large school board position that is currently held by Janis Hanwell. Janis has held this seat since 2016.
After speaking with Ashley and other parents with children currently in Cape schools, I found that schools in the Cape Henlopen School District have been teaching about “white privilege,” “critical race theory” and pushing the “1619 Project” - a “history” that has been labeled a myth by scholars across the country. Ashley Murray is opposed to these radical lessons, and believes that our schools should be fully opened and teaching children to be successful in STEM studies rather than these progressive ideologies that vi
Patricia Lester May 6, 2021
What is taught in our schools determines the educational proficiency and social perspectives of our children. We are woefully failing in this task, and are creating a country that will be uncompetitive globally, its citizens hating their country and one another. School boards significantly influence the management of our schools, and that is why these elections have become so important.
Increasingly, school boards are indoctrinating our children, rather than educating them. While Cape Henlopen High School is held as an icon of great public-school education in the state, students achieve a 33 percent proficiency in math and a 58 percent proficiency in reading/language. Cape students are not only uncompetitive in the state, but lag students in many other states and worldwide.
Friday, March 12, 2021
Cape Henlopen School District voters will go to the polls Tuesday, May 11, to make a choice in the school board election. Incumbent Janis Hanwell faces a challenge from Ashley Murray, who is making her first run for public office.
We agree with Murray that education should be the district’s first priority, and that students should be brought back into the classrooms, in person, as soon as possible. But Hanwell’s experience as a teacher, administrator and school board member give her a decided edge in understanding the nuances that play into addressing those fundamental priorities. Hanwell offers the best choice for helping Cape Henlopen School District remain one of the state’s premier public school systems.