001Good evening. Welcome to the Red Clay Consolidated School District regular board meeting for April 15th, 2026. We will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. Will you please stand? Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Ms. Stevens, can you please commence the roll call? Ms. English? Present. Mr. Hanson? Present. Ms. Landis? Najma Landis, present. Mr. Matthews? Present. Ms. Sander? Present. Ms. Torres? Present. Mr. Leonard? Present. Quorum is established. Thank you, Ms. Stevens. Is there a motion to approve the agenda for tonight's board meeting on April 15th, 2026 as submitted? We have a motion. So moved as a Matthew. Seconded as a Najma Landis. Thank you. It's properly moved
002and seconded to approve the agenda as submitted. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. We'll now have the student, staff, and community recognitions presented by Ms. Alva Mobley. Ms. Mobley? Good evening, Red Clay family and friends. Superintendent Green and President Leonard, please join me in presenting tonight's awards board recognitions. It is my pleasure to recognize an outstanding student whose achievement reflects both excellence and determination. Tonight we honor Peyton Jackson for an incredible accomplishment in academic competition. Peyton earned the title of Wilmington Spelling Bee champion and went on to place seventh in the state spelling bee, a remarkable achievement that speaks volumes about focus, preparation, and perseverance. We are incredibly proud of the way Peyton has represented Warner Elementary School and the entire Red Clay community. Congratulations to Peyton on his well-deserved honor. Peyton,
003if you're here, can you please come forward? Okay, let's give Peyton a hand. Next, we proudly recognize the incredible accomplishments of Skyline Middle School cheer for a truly historic season. This team has set the standard for excellence, earning multiple first-place finishes, capturing grand champion titles, and solidifying their legacy as three-time national champions. Their consistency, discipline, and determination have made them one of the top middle school programs in the region. Beyond competition, Skyline cheer had the honor of performing at the Philadelphia 76ers halftime show, showcasing their talent on a professional stage in front of thousands. Over the past 3 years, they have earned more than 10 first-place titles, a testament to their hard work and commitment to greatness. This success is made possible by the dedication of their coaches, Aiza McCollum and Renata Montalvo, the support
004of their families, and the leadership of their school community. Skyline cheer, your championship spirit and pride represent the very best of Red Clay. Congratulations on an extraordinary season, and please come forward to accept your award as I call your names. Anyla Salandy, Alexa Vinanova Morales, Ava Beverly, Kiyora White, London Muzan, Maryella Alicia Warres, Nicole Baldenado, Nyla Dawes, Olivia Saracini, Satera Robinson, Salima Muhammad, Samantha Rodriguez, Sinclair Oliver, Brielle Muzan, Ruth Bright, and our three-time national title holders, Serenity Richardson and Nadine Williamson. Coach Wow. and Pete, please join us up front. Let's give our board recognition recipients another round of applause. And we're going to We have the honor of getting a just a quick little piece of what earned them their national titles. Thank you, Skyline cheer. Thank you. And I'm happy to announce that Peyton
005is here, so we're going to I'm going to reread this. You guys probably weren't listening, so you'll hear it again, you know, this time. Tonight we honor Peyton Jackson for an incredible accomplishment in academic competition. Peyton earned the title of Wilmington Spelling Bee champion and went on to place seventh in the state spelling bee contest. We are incredibly proud of the way Peyton has represented Warner Elementary School and our entire Red Clay community. Peyton, please come forward to accept your award. Principal Price? Congratulations again to all of our winners tonight. Thank you. It's also worth noting that uh Warner Elementary actually swept the city of Wilmington Spelling Bee where there were over I want to say 35 participants across six schools, so I know Peyton is the champ. Who to pretty city in seventh in
006the state book. Uh let's give it up for Warner as well because their other scholars swept the city of Wilmington. Okay, we'll now have public comment. This here. Is that >> Red Clay School Board appreciates any member of the community who would like to make a public comment. According to board policy 2006, the Red Clay School Board allocates 30 minutes to public commentary. Each person may have up to 3 minutes to address the board, and this time may not be transferred to or from another speaker. The board generally does not respond directly to a speaker. The board meeting is not an inappropriate forum to raise complaints or concerns about individual employees. Upon request, the superintendent shall provide the speaker with the procedure for submitting such complaints or concerns. The order of speakers is listed on
007the screen. As you see your name, please make your way to the seat near the podium. Or if you're a virtual, unmute when called to respect the time of anyone else presenting tonight. When you speak, please state your name and organization if you're speaking on its behalf, and the topic of your comment. There's a timer on the screen that will turn on when you have 1 minute left. It will turn yellow with 30 seconds left and flash in red when 3 minutes are over. I will thank you for your comments and call on the next speaker. Let's begin with Ryan Reemer. Good evening, members of the school board. My name is Ryan, and I'm a student from Thomas McKean High School. I've spoken here before, and I'm here again because the way this decision has
008been handled has made one thing very clear. Our community is not being heard. Over the past several months, students, parents, teachers, and community members have shown up again and again. People have spoken at meeting after meeting, not just from our school, but from across the district. We organized, we asked questions, we tried to be a part of the process, but it seems no matter how many people speak, the outcome has already been decided. There is a petition with around 2,700 signatures opposing this plan. 2,700 people in this community who took the time to say very clearly that they don't support what's happening. I organized a walkout with around 300 students to make sure their voices were visible. Parents have come here worried about their children. Teachers and staff have spoken about what this means for
009the school programs and the environment that exists here, the environment that they know like the back of their hands. And still, it feels like none of this has mattered. I implore you to ask yourself who this decision is for. It's not for the McKean community, we've made that clear. I've spoken to students from both AI and Dickinson, and neither of them really understands the point. And this decision has absolutely not been made or even considered the students in the Meadowood program. We are the only school in the district with this program. Our Our building has been designed and adapted to support those students. The structure, the classrooms, the programs themselves are built around their needs. These students and their families deserve stability and respect. And many of the parents and students involved in the Meadowood
010program are just as upset and concerned about this plan as the rest of us. When decisions like this are made without truly listening to the people affected most, it sends a message that their needs are an afterthought. This is bigger than one plan or one building. This is about trust. School boards are supposed to represent the communities they serve. You are supposed to listen to the people who elected you and the students whose futures you are shaping. Right now, it doesn't feel like that's happening. You're failing us. So, what I'm asking is simple. Actually listen to your community, not just during public comment, not just as a formality, but in a real and meaningful way. Because right now, thousands of people are telling you the same thing, and ignoring that doesn't make concerns go away.
011We care about our school, we care about our programs, including Meadowood, and we care about being part of decisions that affect our education and our community. Listen to the people you're supposed to be serving, and stop moving forward with the plan to convert Thomas McKean into an innovation center. Thank you, Ryan. We'll now have Aziza Rajab. Good evening. My name is Oh, oh, sorry. Good evening. My name is Aziza Rajab, and I'm in ninth grade at Thomas McKean High School. Today, I am speaking my poem about McKean's community's thoughts on the innovation center. Our future's at stake by Aziza Rajab. Concerns of parents, teachers, and students, raise your ears. Should McKean's community really have to shed any tears? This transition will not destroy our pride. Our school's rivalry will cause a divide. Some of us
012won't even be able to come back. Empty locker rooms with sports uniforms on a rack. Teachers worry if you haven't enough seats for us all. Taxpayers wonder if their pockets will end up bald. Students worry for their futures and education. Parents wonder if you will stop giving us misinformation. We all believe that this plan is ill-advised. McKean's community wants a better compromise. This is our school with our voices trapped inside. All of our futures are in your hands to decide. Thank you. Thank you, Aziza. We'll now have Michael Wilson. Hello, my name is Michael Wilson. I'm an autism itinerant teacher at Thomas McKean High School. 2028. That is the year that Mr. Mark Pruitt said last month at the board meeting that was the original implementation date of this to go through. I believe at
013that time, Dr. Green shared that the date was moved up 1 year because of everything with the uh New Castle County School District proposal coming through and being added into it. Um however, one should not force the other to start sooner at the end of the point of that. Um that's going to take at least 5 years. So, there is no reason to half-ass, pardon my language, the Thomas McKean Center. If we truly want to get this thing done right and correct, let's take the time to actually do it the right way. Um at the meeting in March, Mr. Pruitt gave a detailed as presentation as he could with the data that he had available at the time, and thank you for that presentation. Um why we don't delay until we have all the proper
014data, and then we can adequately prepare this so students students could truly be set up for success. Um I believe in March, he shared that the full attendance zone data will be ready around June at the earliest. Um and at that time, we could figure out the beginning of the true budget numbers relating to transportation numbers in the AM as well as the PM, which I believe, you know, Mr. Henson, you brought up in the board meeting last time. Um once the district has these true attendance zone numbers, then maybe the district can do a mass communication, telephone, email, text sent out to all the high schools and the middle schools parents explaining them that as of blank year, your son or daughter will be attending Dickinson or AI. Um another suggestion I have is
015if we know those numbers by either June of this year, June of next year, whenever it is, depending on how the vote goes tonight, um it would allow the district to let the parents of the eighth grade students know that McKean would no longer be an option for their son or daughter whatever school year it is going forward. Thus, forcing the students of those parents to make a choice to either send their child to their assigned high school or attempt to choose the other one. Um I just want to make a point that um I know I only have 3 minutes to speak, so as recommended by a colleague, I sent out part of my message to you guys and email that out to the board about my proposed phasing plan idea. Um Mr. Henson,
016thank you for taking the time to read that and respond. Um in conclusion, I just want to share a few names with you. Thomas Alexander, Kaylena Frazier, Messiah Taylor, Ricky Blanco, Daniel Vasquez Nieto. These are some of my current 10th grade students that I currently work with who, if the McKean Innovation Center stays on schedule, will have to do their 12th grade school year at a different school. As was mentioned in the March meeting by many different commentators, that will likely have a variety of negative impacts, such as increased anxiety, socialization issues, and transaction fears, as well as loss of friends. Again, if we want to do it right, take the time to plan it out properly, or just don't do it at all. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me. Thank
017you, Michael. Now, Tova Dawkins. Good evening, members of the school board. I'm here to speak up against the motion of turning McKean into an innovation center. When I think about McKean, I think about the people and the growth that shaped me. A teacher, Ms. Stokes, helped me build confidence in my writing. When I was stressed about my college essay, she stayed after school to help me, and that essay became one of the reasons I got into the number one HBCU. That moment showed me that McKean is more than just a school, it's a community. When I was going through challenges at home, my McKean family and friends, teachers and counselors supported me. When I thought I might not return to finish my senior year, I realized how much I would miss the small things, the
018hallways, the conversations, my teachers and my teammates. The bonds I built here will stay with me for life. Programs like Meadowood Unified Sports and Best Buddies gave me meaningful connections and changed my perspective in a positive way. And through the arts program, I stepped out of my comfort zone. I auditioned for Beetlejuice, terrified, but that experience built my confidence and gave me friendships and memories I'll never forget. McKean isn't just a place to learn, it's a place to belong. And no innovation center can replace the relationships and opportunities that already exist here. Thank you. Thank you, Tova. Now, Andrea Arena? Good evening, board members. I stand before you all for the third time, both as a concerned member of the public at large and the mother of a nonverbal child with disabilities that currently attends
019the Meadowood program in Red Clay within the McKean High School. I'm here to speak speak about three points. Stopping the McKean Innovation Center, the current attendance zone and restructuring plan to redistrict, and the lack of clear communication from the Red Clay administration. Stopping the McKean Innovation Center. There's some great reasons to stop it. There's no plan, there's no budget in place, there's been no community input or data taken to ensure transparency and get accountability. There's been an overage of misinformation, so much so the public at large to date still does not understand what the McKean Innovation Center idea is and how it will impact their child's education. For example, the McKean Innovation Center is not a Vo-Tech school. If it were, it would not be within Red Clay, it would be a part of the
020New Castle County Vo-Tech School District. It is not. It's merely a career sampling program and should have been presented as such from the beginning. There's been an extreme lack of of public transparency, especially regarding impending school tax increases to offset the costs to implement the McKean Innovation Innovation Center idea. And the Meadowood program, the special education program for individuals with disabilities that resides within McKean High School currently, has never been considered. To date, the Meadowood program has been treated as an absolute afterthought. And this mistreatment of the special education community that resides within McKean High School would be directly affected, especially those students who currently participate in pathways at McKean High School. And very important to note, to date an ADA study of AI DuPont High School has not been completed. The current attendance zone
021and restructuring plan to redistrict. At the March 25th meeting, I saw on the um the plan that you presented that the city of Wilmington is being bussed to AI DuPont High School. This current plan reeks of segregation and an impending lawsuit in the making. I would urge the members of this school board to both challenge and rethink this current plan prior to voting. And the lack of clear communication from the Red Clay administration. The Red Clay website is not user-friendly, and members of the public at large are still required to search for information on the McKean Innovation Center idea. A suggestion was made by a current board member to create a tab on the Red Clay website to provide a clear path to transparency. That logical and helpful idea was disregarded at the March 25th
022meeting. Since that meeting, communication on both the website and emails continues to include misinformation and important missing information, creating further confusing, resulting in further unacceptable levels of a lack of transparency to the public at large. Thank you for your immediate attention, see advocacy and action to stop the McKean Innovation Center idea. Reimagine the redistricting plan and proceed with clearer communication and transparency on all points moving forward. Thank you, Andrea. Now, we have Melissa Ford. Hi. My name is Melissa Ford and I'm a fourth grade teacher at Richey. I spoke about my previous experience as a kindergarten teacher at Joseph E. Johnson during the last board meeting, and since then, I have received messages from other educators detailing their own struggles with student behavior. My story is not an anomaly. I am not alone. During the
0232023 to 2024 school year, Red Clay's code of conduct defined inappropriate behavior as behavior which produces distractions, friction, or disturbances which seriously or repeatedly interfere with the effective function of the teacher and or students within the school environment, including but not limited to actions that could endanger the safety and welfare of others. Consequences range from level one to four and included reprimands and parent contact for level one to a four to 10 day suspension for level four. The code of conduct defined offensive touching as intentionally touching another person either with a member or his of his or her body with any instrument, knowing that the person is thereby likely to cause offense or alarm to such other person. Consequences range from level two to level five and included work assignment, in-school suspension, and parent conference
024for level two, one to three day suspension, referral to police, and readmission conference for level three, and extended suspension, 11 plus days for level five. Over the course of that school year, I was struck with an object, had my hair pulled, was jumped on, clawed, and rammed into with enough force to cause bruising and nausea. I was hit on my back. My classroom was evacuated multiple times in a single day. These incidents involved students with documented histories of physical aggression and large numbers of prior wraps, many of which were incorrectly coded by administration and without meaningful consequence. In each case I experienced, administration only assigned mostly level one consequences, reprimands and temporary removals for conduct that the code of conduct classifies as level two through level five. I was diagnosed by my doctor with a
025contusion of the abdominal wall and PTSD from my job as a kindergarten teacher. For nearly eight months, I shielded my students from punches and chairs being thrown and hid them under desks like they were hiding from an intruder while they cried for it to stop. Our babies need support and boundaries and consequences from people who truly love them before they leave our walls and are met with a world that doesn't. Thank you, Melissa. Now, Shawn Orr. And Mr. President, if I may just quickly um interject here, I I just want to remind when folks are coming in to to speak public comment, speak directly into the microphone. There's a huge fan right next to me. I just want to make sure that I can hear everyone loud and clear. Can you hear me? Yep, I
026can. All right. Thanks, Shawn. Good evening, board members, and thank you for your service. My name is Shawn Orr. Before I start, I want to share that my son, a McKean graduate, is wrapping up his freshman year at university. He is a four-year scholarship recipient and has presently has a 3.8 plus GPA. He is also a person with autism. I mention him because it was the supports provided by the McKean staff, along with his efforts, that contributed and continues to influence his academic success. I am convinced that he that had he gone to a different school, he would have had an entirely different story, and for that his mother and I are grateful. There's been a lot of talk about numbers, specifically the population of students at AI High School. And while that is an
027important part of the picture, it is far from the entire picture. I'm going to share some other numbers. Presently, there are two magnet schools and two charter schools serving Red Clay High School students in addition to the three feeder high schools. All the magnet and charter schools require students to apply for admission. Presently, application-only schools make up over half of the high schools in the district. If McKean is converted to an Innovation Center, that percentage increases to 67% or two-thirds of the high schools. That means there will only be one feeder high school for every two application-only schools. This essentially presents Red Clay as a publicly funded quasi-private school district. Furthermore, while still discussing numbers, when the student demographics of the three existing feeder schools are compared to those of the four application-only schools, it
028is clear that the three feeder schools serve and support populations that are often underrepresented, minorities, low-income students, and students with special needs, whereas the application-only schools primarily serve historically well-represented groups. Let me be clear. This is an indictment of any particular person or the board as a whole. This is not a diatribe against magnet and charter schools. It is, however, a statement that if we're going to discuss numbers, then we need to be actively looking at all the numbers, not just the numbers convenient to the narrative being promoted with the Innovation Center. In conclusion, I fail to see the innovation in creating a publicly funded quasi-private school district by closing a feeder school while simultaneously preserving the structure of four application-only schools that underserve already underrepresented populations. Students with unique needs and circumstances shouldn't be
029collateral damage. Thank you, Shawn. Tracy Dobrowolski Is Tracy here? Um, yes. >> Go ahead. Yes. Okay, we can hear you. Okay, perfect. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight again tonight. My son Braden is a sophomore at McKean. He has autism as well as an intellectual disability and anxiety. He is in a setting B with a shared para. We picked McKean because of the high special needs population. Braden is thriving at McKean and has made friends as it's played sports through the unified sports program. Please vote to pause or cancel plans for the Innovation Center. Please think of the kids that are already thriving at McKean and won't be able to graduate from there. Why are we making McKean, who is already successful, change? We have kids that don't always fit in, but at
030McKean they do. Please don't take that away. Braden wants to graduate a Highlander and not a Ram or a Tiger. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Mike Cole Good evening, members of the board. Last month I stood here and spoke about the extraordinary special education program at McKean and the life-changing impact it has had on my daughter. I want to be very clear, McKean's program for special ed is not just good, it is exceptional, truly exceptional. And in the result of years, and I mean years, of dedication by teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals who have built a culture of trust, alignment, and deep commitment to the students and their families. This kind of culture cannot simply be split into and it cannot be dismantled and recreated somewhere else. Certainly not in 16 months. These programs are not
031just based on paper, meaning on the mandates of the kids' IEP. These are built on relationships, built on support systems. These are meant for children who depend on consistency, stability, and people who truly know them. I do understand that enrollment is declining and that change is necessary, and I recognize that difficult decisions must be made. Whether that means moving forward with the McKean Innovation Center or considering reinventing AI DuPont, that's not up to me. Responsible change takes time. It requires methodical planning, thoughtful implementation, and a transition period that minimizes disruption, minimizes disruption not only for students, but for families and for the educators. At the last meeting, we heard from Mr. Mark Pruitt, who is a respected and experienced administrator and teacher in the district. You entrusted him and his committee to guide the process,
032and according to what he said at the last meeting, they said they needed until 2028 to do this right. Your response was to move the timeline up to 2027. So I ask if the very people you want and ask to lead this work are telling you that your timeline is too aggressive, I would urge you to listen to them. Rushing this process does not demonstrate leadership. It risks causing real harm, harm to students who rely on stability and harm to families who are already navigating complex challenges. There will be negative consequences, intended or unintended, as a result of this plan. Forcing it forward on an unrealistic timeline impact on special ed students, on vulnerable populations, and on the Meadowood program alone demands more time to gather information and more thought. I am asking you to
033slow down, to listen to your own experts, to choose a path that prioritizes doing Thank you, Mike. I'd like to proceed with my motion. I Excuse me, but before we proceed, um, I'd like to make a motion to extend our time for public comments beyond the 30 minutes. Seconded by Christine Matthews. Seconded by Ms. Cordis. All in favor? I. I. Opposed? Okay, extend the time. We now have, Adrian Fields on Zoom. Ms. Fields. Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes. This is Adrian Fields, Vice President of the Red Clay Para Association. My desire today is to please postpone the implementation of the McKean Innovation Center to simply ensure adequate planning, communication, and student and transition. Thank you very much. Thank you, Adrian. Morgan Dukes Hello, board members. I am a McKean alumni and current staff
034member, and I want to acknowledge the proposal the proposed resolution, sorry, for the McKean Innovation Center. This resolution includes a phased transition plan, comprehensive communication strategy, documented student engagement, staff training, direct outreach to families, an equity analysis, IDEA compliance review, and a full operational impact report. All of these items reflect many of the concerns that have been raised for months by staff, families, and even students. This updated version raises the bar. It requires documentation, public transparency, measurable outcomes, and a formal vote before moving forward. That is meaningful progress. Because the concern from our community is not just about what is written in the plan, it's about fidelity of implementation. We've seen processes where boxes are checked, meetings are held, and materials are distributed, but the deeper purpose is not achieved. Information is shared, but it's
035not understood. Engagement is offered, but it's not meaningful. Voices are heard, but reflected into the decisions, they aren't. This can't be another exercising compliance. If this plan is paused, then the work done during that pause has to meet a higher standard, and most importantly, this board must be prepared to say no if those standards are not met. A pause without accountability is just a delay. The community is not asking for perfection. They're asking for honesty, transparency, and follow-through. I support these conditions. They're necessary, but they have to be carried out with rigor, not just checked off of a list. Before this plan moves forward, the community deserves confidence not only in the process, but in the accountability behind it. Thank you. Thank you, Morgan. Lauren DeStefano Good evening. My name is Lauren DeStefano and I'm
036a proud graduate of Thomas McKean High School, class of 2014. I'm here tonight to respectfully ask you to listen to your community and vote to reconsider this proposal of the Innovation Center. McKean is not just a building, it's a community. It's a place that has shaped students like me and continues to serve the strong student population that it has today. It does not have the lowest enrollment. It is one of the fewer and newer facilities that you have in your district. So it raises an important question to me as an alum, why did you pick McKean? This plan was put in place and it did not consider anybody else's feelings aside from the board's, in my opinion. This plan would require students to have to consider traveling from multiple places in one day. That takes
037away from the education. That takes away from their jobs if they have jobs, families, or even different parts of learning activities and sports. Education should be accessible and not complicated. My sophomore year I was a part of the student body that brought back the plant cell program. That current greenhouse that was 14 years old got damaged this past winter. It's currently being rebuilt. This greenhouse serves a community. There are students that have put their time, energy, and effort into this type of community work, and that will go away. That is important to me. That sense of community, it's about it's going to impact the today's students and future students. It's definitely impacted me. I'm currently pursuing my master's degree in applied behavioral analysis at Capella and I'm projected to graduate with a 4.0 this December.
038I'm planning on using that degree that I am currently pursuing from the community that I came from at McKean. This is about logistics. It's not just that, it's also about identity. McKean is a home to the Highlanders. It has pride and tradition and a strong sense of belonging. Turning it into a building, just a building, doesn't make any sense. I stand here as someone who cares deeply about their school and what it represents, not just as a an alumni, but for current and future students. So please, you need to reconsider and you need to think long and hard because at McKean, it's always a great day to be a Highlander. Thank you. Thank you, Lauren. Kevin now on Zoom? Hi, can you guys hear me? Yes. Thank you. Hi, um good evening. My name is
039Kevin Nye and I am a special education English teacher at McKean High School. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight regarding my perspective on the plan for the McKean Innovation Center. So, I myself happen to be on the autism spectrum, which makes a lot of the more nuanced aspects of being a teacher more challenging for me than for neurotypical educators such as building relationships, responding effectively to challenging behaviors, and juggling the infinite responsibilities that come with being a teacher. I taught middle school for 5 years in another district and I felt like I was drowning in spite of the countless hours I was putting in. This is my sixth year at McKean High School, but within a couple of years of working here, I knew that I wanted to work here until I retire.
040Our administrators capitalize on our strengths. The empowering, restorative, and truly family-oriented nature of McKean is special. And my support system here has shaped me into the teacher I am today. I recognize due to the attendance the declines in attendance and the attendance zone issues that are happening that a restructure at some point in time is essential. And thanks to the way my support system at McKean has helped me to grow as a teacher, I know that I'll be successful and adjust wherever I go, even though it might be really hard, even though it probably will be really hard, and the prospect of starting over somewhere gives me a ton of anxiety. Having more time to prepare would give me much greater peace of mind. And I'm 34 years old with a stable home life, whereas
041our students at McKean are teenagers about half my age and many of them don't have nearly the same level of stability outside of school. So, knowing how daunting it will be for me, I can't imagine how difficult that adjustment process will be for our students. Many students at McKean have been able to cultivate networks of support among our caring, organized staff, but this has taken lots of time of effort to cultivate over their high school careers. And a great deal of thought and planning needs to go into the process of transitioning them to their new schools if and when this change takes place. So, giving them more time, um more time to accept and get used to the idea of the impending change by following Ms. Landis's proposal to pause the plan until all tests
042are completed will go a very long way. This way, staff at McKean, Dickinson, AI, and at our district level can also have more time to collaborate in terms of ironing out plans to support every student. Therefore, I am strongly supporting this proposed proposed pause of the implementation of the McKean Innovation Center. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Kevin. Thomas McGrath on Zoom? Is that Thomas McGrath? Can you hear me? Yes. Hi, my name is Tom McGrath and I'm reading for my daughter, Chloe McGrath. She wrote a nice letter. I'm a ninth grade student athlete at Thomas McKean High School. I strongly oppose the plan to change McKean from a traditional high school into an innovation center. This change would take away from the high school experience that I've worked hard for um
043and to build an environment where I feel truly I where I feel I truly belong. I chose to attend McKean because the education I knew I could receive here. While I understand that other schools have great teachers, this place is where I feel the most support. I have help from the guidance I needed, including support from my stepmother. I have access to events, activities that are important to me. The school's wellness center is a huge part of our community and not only supports students physically, but also provides mental health support for those who need someone to talk to. Most importantly, McKean has helped me discover my biggest passion, volleyball. Being part of the volleyball team has helped me grow, improve, and build meaningful relationships. I've made my best friends here and developed a strong bond
044with my coach. This program has helped me go through difficult times and given me something positive to focus on. It truly means everything to me. Changing schools would take me away from the support system and place me in a completely different environment, potentially along alongside students from rival schools where there may be already be tension. This could create unnecessary conflict, take away from the positive high school experience that so many students value. The change would not only impact students socially and emotionally, but it could also affect teachers and staff who have worked so hard for their positions. Students like me who have decided dedicated time and effort to our academic and extracurriculars um may be forced into situations that don't reflect that what we've worked towards. As a setter at the McKean volleyball team, I've
045spent years developing my skills in this position and suddenly a change like this could take that opportunity away from me. While I understand this proposal may have good intentions, the speed and scale of this change feel unfair to students who care deeply about their educations, their activities, and their community. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my perspective. I hope you will truly listen to and consider the voices of me and other students at Thomas McKean High School. Thank you, Thomas. Uh Jessica Kling on Zoom? Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Hi, my name is Jessica. I am the mother of five. My oldest is in the Meadowood program at McKean. She is in 10th grade with a diagnosis of autism and global delay. I have a sixth grader in a private school,
046two children in a in Marbrook Spanish immersion program, and my youngest is in preschool. I'm here tonight to tell you that I oppose the McKean Innovation Center. I oppose it because that means my daughter's school will be moved to AI High School. She then would have to be transported back to McKean to go on her career path, which is at the child care center. The daycare is only available at McKean. If the innovation center passes, we will pull our daughter her senior year because of the negative impact it will have on her. I took the time to email all seven board members. Three of them responded. Thank you, by the way. One was a generic message that I'm sure was sent to everybody who opposed this. The second one was somebody thanking me and asked
047if they could share my feelings with the board. And the last person who responded actually took time to meet with me and other concerned parents. My frustration begins with the board because I feel like they make decisions without getting the community and parents' input. I know this to be a fact because a few years ago Red Clay tried to phase out Marbrook Spanish immersion program, but guess what? We fought back and the program is still here. Listen to parents, listen to students, listen to teachers, listen to the community. Take the time to get this right. Don't waste our time. Don't waste our money. I think the board needs to consider how this will directly affect everybody involved, including Meadowood, who is one of the most delicate communities. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Jessica.
048Now, we have uh Aaron Rivera on Zoom? In person. Very good. Hello and thank you for taking the time to listen. I am a fourth grade teacher at North Star Elementary. I've been teaching in this district for 18 years. I love my job and I cannot imagine doing anything else. At the same time, I'm exhausted. Teacher responsibilities are never-ending, lesson planning, grading, emails, phone calls, documenting, entering data more than once in different locations. All of this and not have I even mentioned teaching yet. Teachers have 225 minutes of planning time for a 5-day week. This works out to about 45 minutes a day and the time goes quickly. Planning and preparing for lessons for one week usually takes about 2 hours a week. This includes a making a plan, making copies, creating visuals, planning for
049differentiation, and organizing groups. Grading student work takes at least an hour and a half a week. Entering grades into Infinite Campus takes a minimum of 30 minutes a a week. This equals 240 minutes a week, which already puts me 15 minutes over my allotted planning time. I still have not answered emails, made phone calls to families, entered data for students in various online locations. This equates to multiple hours of time outside of my contract day every week. These things all need to be completed, but there's no time. This all came to a boiling point for me during our last professional development day. Teachers were asked to drive to their home schools for an hour to read an article and answer questions. This felt like a lot of busy work. Then we were asked to figure
050we could all fight traffic to go to a building that lacks parking so we could all sit through a training on a topic we've heard many times before. It felt so disrespectful and out of touch. We need a district that understands everything teachers are being asked to do and respects them enough to give them the time to do their jobs. I know many teachers that took off that professional development day. Their own time, so that they could use that time off the clock to go into their classrooms and complete the work for their job. It sounds ridiculous and it is. I'm asking the board to take a look at how much is being asked of teachers and how much time teachers have to complete their jobs. I'm pleading with the board to help the district
051understand that teachers need more time. If we want to see more student growth, if we want students that can read, write, and think critically, we need to value teachers enough to give them what they need. More time to do their jobs. More time for teachers will make stronger teachers, stronger lessons, and stronger students. On an off-topic side note, as a Dickinson MYP parent, I have seen the amazing things happening at Dickinson. I really hope the district considers postponing this McKean Intervention Center change for all of the schools involved. The teachers at all of the affected schools are not receiving adequate answers to their questions. Families are ill-informed and the students are not being adequately considered with such a tight timeline. We should put this We should build this plane before we try to fly it.
052Thank you for supporting Red Clay teachers by encouraging the district to allocate more time to teachers so they can do their jobs. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. Stacy Stokes. Hello, my name is Stacy Stokes. I'm a teacher at Thomas McKean High School. My appeal to the board is simple. Support the resolution to pause MIC. I've been in Red Clay for 20 years. I've spent my career at McKean and I'm going to be honest, I never planned on leaving. I still don't. The classroom is my home. The district is my home. And no matter where some people may see themselves in 5 years or 10 years, I've always seen myself right here in Red Clay and at McKean. That's why this matters to me. Because right now I'm seeing something I haven't seen in all my
053years in Red Clay. Division, uncertainty, and a growing sense that people aren't being heard. And that concerns me. We teach our kids to think critically, to reflect, to learn from the past before making big decisions. And history shows us what happens when we don't. We saw it with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Warnings were raised, but the decision moved forward. We saw it with the Titanic sinking. The signs were there, but they didn't slow down. And we've seen it right here in Delaware when Wilmington High School closed, it was meant to solve a problem. And yet, here we are 25 years later with the Redding Consortium still working through those same challenges. We've seen it in every avoidable disaster. Different situations, but the same lesson. When we move forward without clarity, without alignment, without truly
054listening, we don't solve the problem, we delay it. And tonight, that responsibility sits with you. You are the eight people who decide what happens next. So, I am asking you, I am beseeching you as someone who has given 20 years to the district and plans on giving 10 more, to please pause. We see the iceberg. We are just asking to slow this ship down. Thank you, Stacy. Uh Beth While on Zoom. Hi. Good evening. My name is Beth While and I'm a teacher at Thomas McKean High School. I want to express my agreement with the postponement resolution that's being talked about this evening. This transition transition represents a major shift for students, families, educators, and our feeder school communities. Right now, there are still many unanswered questions. Students, especially those in class of 2029 and
055current cohorts, deserve clarity in how they will complete their high school experience. Stability matters. We've also seen through recent student protests that students want to be heard. Their voices should be part of this process, not an afterthought. Families have raised concerns about communication and transparencies and educators need clear guidance and professional development so we can properly support our students. This resolution is not about stopping progress. It's about doing this the right way. It calls for a pause until key conditions are met. A clear transition plan, consistent and transparent communication, meaningful student and community engagement, and proper preparation for educators and staff. By taking the time to plan carefully, we can ensure that the McKean Innovation Center is successful and not just a concept, but in practice. Our students deserve both innovation and stability. We can
056and we should provide both. Thank you for your time and consideration. All right. Thank you, Beth. Stephen Infante. Good evening, board. My name is Stephen Infante, music teacher at Richey Elementary and president of the Red Clay Education Association. I'm here tonight to speak about the McKean Intervention Center. At our March 23rd Representative Council meeting, the body voted overwhelmingly for the following. RCEA formally requests a pause on the implementation of the proposed Thomas McKean Intervention Campus restructuring for a minimum of one full school year. This pause would allow for a comprehensive review, transparent communication regarding staffing implications, enrollment impact, transition planning, and ensure meaningful educator input prior to any final decisions. This request is not a position for or against innovation. Rather, it reflects our responsibility to ensure that significant structural changes affecting working conditions proceed
057with clarity, defined metrics, and an authentic educator voice. This request is short. It is direct. It has been what stakeholders have been asking for a long time now. And while I cannot give an official position on it at the moment, I can safely say that our union would overwhelmingly overwhelmingly endorse the action item before you this evening. Again, this is not a position for or against, but simply making sure deliberate, intentional, and authentic outreach is made so all parties have a heated voice in decision-making. On a personal note, I would like to thank board board members uh Landis and Torres who have actively been engaging with RCEA trying to uh reach those other voices who may not necessarily have an opportunity for this. So, I do appreciate the collaboration you both have been doing that.
058Remember, our working conditions are students' learning conditions. I appreciate your time. Thank you, Stephen. Helen Dennis on Zoom. Hold on a second. Just bringing up my comments. Uh my name is Helen Dennis. My child, Sarah, is a freshman in the Meadowood program at McKean High School. Uh Sarah has complex disabilities and needs the many accommodations offered by Meadowood. She was born with a rare genetic disorder called CTNNB1 syndrome and she is one of the more profoundly affected children with this diagnosis. Sarah is legally blind. She cannot walk or talk and she has fine motor impairment. Uh her expressive communication is very limited. She also has an autism diagnosis. She needs assistant and special equipment in the restroom and she needs ramps and elevators to access the school. I support the postponement of the Innovation Hub
059plan. The plan did not receive sufficient review and input from parents and educators. There needs to be more review public review of AI High School to determine whether it's accessible enough for the Meadowood kids. I feel unsure that AI DuPont High School will be physically ready for the Meadowood kids to begin there under the original plan and I don't feel confident that the adequate funds have been budgeted for this purpose. As for the bussing of students from Conrad, Dickinson, and AI to McKean several times per week, I'm not convinced this is a good use of students' time or the district's money. Please investigate this further before moving forward. Take more time to review this proposal and get greater input from parents and educators. Thank you. Thank you, Helen. Alicia Halyard. Wait. >> Uh good evening
060board members and district leadership. My name is Alicia Halyard Thomas and I am the parent of a fresh of a fresh >> Apologies. Apologies. If you could just so that they can hear you clearly, could you just speak directly into the mic? Sorry. This is a huge fan. It's huge. Uh good evening board members and district leadership. My name is Alicia Halyard Thomas and I am a parent of a freshman at Thomas McKean High School. I'm here today not just as a parent, but as a voice for thousands of families who are trying to understand how a decision of this magnitude move forward without many of us following under state fully understanding the impact until recently. We know we now know that the board voted in July to move forward with transitioning McKean into innovation
061campus by 2027. While we hear the goal of expanding opportunities for students, many families are still left with more questions than answers, particularly around how this will affect our children's daily experiences, stability, and sense of belonging. Over the past few weeks, our community has come together and we now have over 2,000 signatures from parents, students, alumni, and community members who are asking for clarity, transparency, and meaningful involvement in this process. This is not resistance for the sake of resistance. This is a community asking to be included in decisions that directly impact our children's lives. Our concerns are specific. We will How will students maintain stability when they are split between two schools? How will friendships, support systems, and school identity be preserved? What will happen to existing athletic teams, coaches, and programs that currently serve
062as a foundation for many students? And how will the district ensure that no student falls through the cracks during this transition? We are not against growth. We are not against innovation. And we are not against creating more opportunities for students. But progress should not come at the cost of stability, transparency, and trust. As someone who started the position the petition with over 2,000 signatures, I take transparency and accountability extremely serious. I am committed to bringing forward the voices, concerns, and lived experiences of the families who will be most impacted by these changes. Tonight I am asking for three things. First, continue transparency, not just in documents, but in clear, direct communication with families. Second, meaningful community involvement, not after decisions are made, but during the process of shaping how this transition will actually happen. And
063third, a commitment that students' well-being academically, socially, and emotionally remains at the at the center of every decision moving forward. Our children have already n- Excuse me. Our children have already navigated sufficient changes over the past several years. They deserve stability, opportunity, Thank you, Alicia. Uh Maurice Maurice Thomas. My name is Maurice Thomas and I'm a freshman striving to be a McKean High School graduate. I am here to talk about McKean turning into an innovation center which would do harm to the community by some of the teachers losing their jobs and leaving some kids without transportation getting to the getting to practice or to school in general. What I'm trying to say is some students at McKean High School only have McKean High School. You will end up taking away more than just a building.
064Some students only Some students and only their friends and family at that school. So, once that is gone, then what are you really leaving them with? Thank you, Maurice. We have Maggie Thayer on Zoom. Maggie, are you there? Uh yes. Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am a proud teacher at Thomas McKean High School, but I wanted to start my message by saying that I also support all three high schools in the Red Clay School District and the schools in general. So, my my message is that I I would also support a postponement of the plan for the McKean Innovation Center because as um not to repeat what has already been said, but there is not only a financial cost to this choice um that would need to be transparent
065before moving forward, but also a human cost. And I would not want a plan to go forward that would impact all three high schools in such a way that an influx of change would um would be potentially would potentially change the makeup of our of our schools unless there is more time to fully investigate what this plan and restructuring could look like. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Maggie. Uh Dee Jonik on Zoom. Dee, are you there? We'll come back to Dee. Uh Jenny Howard. Good evening. My name is Jenny Howard, a Red Clay parent, a former teacher in the district, and a member of the board policy review committee. I'm also a candidate running for the school board. I'm here tonight to talk about transparency because what happened with Red Clay's reimagining secondary
066education is a case study in its absence. And what happens tonight will tell this community whether this board is listening or not. This morning I pulled tonight's agenda attachments. The district posted high school attendance zone maps that have never been clearly presented to this community. New feeder patterns and massive enrollment shifts posted this morning while knowing the board is scheduled to vote tonight on a resolution that would likely stop that plan. That is the appearance of a process without the substance of it. The resolution on your agenda has 11 conditions. Every single one exists because this process failed. A transition plan never published, an IDEA compliance review never completed, a financial report that doesn't exist. Not delayed, it does not exist. But I want to be clear. The community is not asking for more time.
067They are asking for this plan to stop. Parents and students have shown up, spoken up, and filled rooms. And some some members of this board have continued to move this plan forward anyway. And that has not gone unnoticed. You were elected to serve this community, not the administration, not a strategic plan. These are public schools. They require public input and accountability. That is not an obligation. It is a requirement. The district wants the board to stay the course. The community is telling you to change it. That gap is exactly why an independent school board exists. Vote yes tonight, not as a delay, but as a rejection of a plan this community never asked for. And this board was never prepared to oversee. We cannot afford to get this wrong. And preparing students for the future
068does not require cutting corners today. The community is watching. The students are watching. And with an election 3 weeks away, the voters are watching, too. What we all want is transparency. Public schools, public decisions. Thank you. Thank you, Jenny. Jenny Forman on Zoom. Jenny, are you >> Hello. Yes. Yes. Um I'm sorry. Uh good evening. Uh my name is Jenny Forman. I have two children in Red Clay. At the end of 2023, parents of Marbrook Elementary received a letter letting us know that the Spanish immersion program will be phasing out starting the school year 2024-2025. This notice notice took us by surprise. The reasons were given were lack of enrollment and the small class sizes in the Spanish immersion classrooms. We parents were not made aware or asked for help to get more students enrolled.
069The school board approved phasing out the program. We parents were just told it was going to happen. We parents organized and fought for the program and thankfully the board decided to give the school and the program a second chance. Marbrook now has a new principal we believe in and Spanish immersion classrooms are at full capacity at least from kindergarten through second grade. And there is a waitlist. Some of those parents who advocated for the Spanish immersion program at Marbrook are now advocating for our high schools. These parents realize we need to keep informed of what is going on in in our schools. They participate actively in committee and school board meetings and are constantly reading documents and researching. It is not enough to be a bystander. Many years ago a school choice was implemented and
070I believe it has had great benefits. Magnet, charter, and technical schools are giving great opportunities to our students. However, the the consequences were probably overlooked. I believe most parents choice their kids into these magnet, charter, and technical schools. The kids who do not get accepted are left to attend the comprehensive high schools and parents feel they lost and failed their kids. The current The current problem is few students among three high schools, so one needs to be closed. Meanwhile, charter, magnet, and vocational schools are at full capacity. Some parents asked the district for one of the Red Clay school buildings, McKean High School building specifically. I am not sure if making McKean High School an innovation center is such a bad idea for the current situation we are in. I don't really know what the
071solution is. We parents of the future generations need to be taken into account and be part of the solution. And if you need our help, please ask for it. I wish all parents feel happy with whichever school their children attend. Thank you, Jenny. Okay, approval of the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the executive session held on March 18th, 2026? So moved, English. Second, Jose Matthews. Thank you. It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes from the executive session, March 18th, 2026. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the regular session held March 18th, 2026? So moved, Jose Matthews. Thank you. Was there a second? Second, Susan Sander. Thank you. It has been properly moved and seconded
072to approve the minutes from the regular session held on March 18th, 2026. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the board workshop held on April 1st, 2026? So moved. So moved, Susan Sander. >> Second, Jose Matthews. Thank you. It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes from the board workshop held on April 1st, 2026. Any discussion? Thank you, Maria. Yes. Thank you, Maria. The minutes uh All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The minutes are approved. At this time we will hear from Superintendent Dr. Green who will provide the superintendent's report. Dr. Green. Thank you, President Leonard, Mr. members of the board, guests here in the Richardson Park auditorium, and those who are joining us online. Um again, I know we
073have a lot of business to take care of, so I'll be brief in my report this evening. Again, it is loaded in BoardDocs. Um first pictured on my presentation this month um are is our autism services team. Uh we were at the Red Clay um job fair and I want to thank Dr. Kennan Dorsey and our HR department uh for putting that on. A recruitment effort uh that was housed or hosted at Wilmington University's campus. It was a morning focused on opportunity, connection, and purpose. Uh all of our respective employee groups, uh departments were represented there. Um so again, thank you to our HR department for uh a job well done on hosting a our annual job fair. That I believe this is our third year of hosting it. Um got a lot of good
074participation and again, over 400 participants uh engaged in that on a Saturday. We also want to uh give a shout-out to our women leaders in the district. Um I know March was Women's History Month, but the eighth annual Women Leading Delaware Education Conference uh was hosted. Uh the theme this year was elevating voices for collective belonging. Uh this event addressed issues specific to women in leadership and provided an opportunity for current and aspiring leaders to convene for impactful day of connection, introspection, and inspiration. Uh there were two breakout sessions were led by Red Clay Consolidated School District administrators, Mrs. Melissa Brady and Mrs. uh Segazi uh at Linden Hill uh led a session and Dr. Susan Hoffman and Andrea Castro led a session at that event. So that was at the University of Delaware, I
075believe. Um Secretary of Education uh had the scholars dinner. Um we had 13 Red Clay scholars uh get awarded. Um this Monday, uh Secretary of Education Cindy Martin has recognized 93 public school students uh from the class of 2026. And again, pictured in my presentation are the 13 Red Clay students that were represented across all of our um schools. Congratulations to our scholars uh for their wonderful achievement, hard work, and effort. Again, when we talk about portrait of a graduate, these students embody um everything that Red Clay has to offer. And thank you to the Secretary of Ed for um elevating those students again, not just in Red Clay, but across the state. We want to give a shout-out to HB DuPont Middle School. Uh their students were crowned the 2026 Solar Racer champions. Again,
076there's a long list of awardees um from first place, uh second and third place recipients. Um Arjan Nathan, Jilong Lu, Alexander Martin uh from HB DuPont Middle School earned first place in the annual solar racer competition. Solar Racer is a competition in which students in grades 5 through 8 team with their classmates and teacher advisors over several months to build model cars powered by solar uh cells and better known as solar panels. Congratulations to all of our students who participated this year in the Delaware Department of Natural Resources Environmental Control and the Delaware Technology Student Associations event. So congratulations to those scholars at HB DuPont Middle School. Also, just want to elevate each uh building in Red Clay has a restorative practice uh trainer, uh building administrators in the RP champion teacher and staff member
077who supported the restorative practice implementation at the school level. The trainers and champions work directly uh with the district office team members to plan for professional development, provide coaching uh for RP, which is known again as restorative practice implementation. Again, um this uh work has extended to our HR department as well, um employing restorative practices when we look at conflict and other avenues of things within our district. Just also some information on systems of support and intervention around restorative practices. Won't go into it. And as we transition coming off spring break, hopefully everyone had a restful period and know that now many of us are likely counting down the days. I don't want us to count down the days. We want to make the remaining days in this school year count. Um so with that
078being said, we are looking forward uh and looking ahead to um summer programming. And so we have spring into learning that will be um at Balt, Forest Oak, Marbrook, Mot, Richardson Park, and Richey. Uh and also the Fame stimulating partnership with Fame Incorporated um will be at Brandywine Springs, School Cook, Heritage, Linden Hill, and North Star. Uh but we have a ton of other offerings. Uh the Delaware Excuse me, the CDF Children's Defense Fund Freedom School, which will support Warner Elementary, Shortlidge Academy, Johnson Elementary, and Lewis. Um and it's in partnership with several organizations and we want to thank Dr. Laura Booker who we know is also here to give an update presentation to the board um for that partnership in supporting a lot of our summer programming specifically for our Wilmington Learning Collaborative schools.
079And we also hosted our first annual um spring break academy in partnership with the Wilmington Learning Collaborative. So we had students engaged at Cab Calloway over spring break again for learning opportunities, enrichment. And so we want to thank uh the Wilmington Learning Collaborative for that partnership and also Nan Steedle who works with the Cab Fund and some of our other partners to facilitate that work on behalf of students and families over spring break. We also want to uh elevate That's for them to keep up. I apologize if I'm moving too fast. Um the district behavioral health professional of the year, um Ms. Kelly Nickel as the Red Clay 2025-2026 Behavioral Health Professional of the Year. Kelly will represent Red Clay in Delaware's Behavioral Health Professional of the Year at the state level. Um and Ms.
080Nickel is um a school psychologist over at the Conrad Schools of Science who does a wonderful job really engaging um, student staff and that school community and congratulations to her for uh, being awarded the Delaware, uh, excuse me, the district. I'm I'm foreshadowing. Get the Delaware, the state awardee, um, but the district behavior health professional of the year. If you know anyone, uh, this week is the week of early learners. Um, so hopefully I know board members received the invite to participate and um, at the early learning, uh, program at our early learning centers, EYP, early years program. But the choice window is now open, um, until May 1st for the 2026-2027 school year and also kindergarten registration. If you know, have neighbors, have family members, please encourage them to register early. Um, we know
081it takes a lot with Infinite Campus. I know that's a the nasty word to say amongst a lot of our educators, front office staff, um, as we've transitioned from B School to Infinite Campus. Um, it is a laborious, labor-intensive process to navigate. It's not user-friendly. Um, so we would encourage, if you know families, um, who have kindergarteners to register sooner rather than later as we go through that process. Just a couple other announcements and I'll just end with this one. Um, we have our annual health and wellness fair um, coming up this uh, Saturday, April 25th. I'm getting ahead of myself at Warner Elementary at Brandywine Park from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Uh, we have free, um, health screenings um, activities for community members. There will be tons of vendors there. Um, again, and
082it's also a a medication disposal site. There's a lot of work to actually go into becoming a medication disposal site. So if you have medications that you want to dispose of or more importantly you want to get information around various health screenings, um, and just get information around overall community wellness, please come out. It is open to the public Saturday, April 25th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Warner Elementary located across the street in Brandywine Park. And then again, there are some other highlights, um, as we enter prom season approaches uh, to our students let's celebrate safely as we enter prom season, um, and I do want to give a shout-out to my fellow uh, Aspire uh, alumni member, um, who I learned had did a a wonderful job um, providing prom dresses um,
083to students at McKean. Um, there a a misunderstanding with that there was a a closet of prom dresses and she went through and itemized those dresses and again gave them out to and allowed students to pick from them. Um, so again, a wonderful opportunity as we enter prom season. Uh, let's make it again an unforgettable memory with friends, but remember, uh, please do it safely. Board elections are Tuesday, May 12th. Polls open at 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Please check Board of Elections for those polling locations. Uh, we as a district are not responsible for those polling locations. Again, that is managed by the Board of Elections and we have our annual Red Clay Education Foundation golf outing. Um, that concludes my report. Again, there are several other announcements. April is full of recognitions and
084appreciations. And again, without going through all of them and listing them, I don't want to miss any names, but again, that is identified in my report. And that concludes my April's report. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Green. We have several presentations. Uh, we're happy to have Dr. Burgos here from Wilmington Learning Collaborative to give an update. Dr. Burgos. Good evening, members of the board, Dr. Green and the Red Clay community. My name is Laura Burgos and I have the privilege of leading the Wilmington Learning Collaborative, uh, who is now in its third year of operation. Known as the WLC, the collaborative is a cross-district network of empowered educators, leaders and school communities working collectively to advance positive student outcomes. Our work is centered on three core ideas: students first, connected schools and purposeful partnerships. Tonight,
085I will highlight the ways in which we work to actualize each of these ideas. Red Clay WLC schools have pioneered the idea of the reimagined school day, providing students with in-school enrichment opportunities in partnership with community organizations. From We Rise Wednesdays to Wildcat Wednesdays we're seeing the real results of their efforts. Students having increased access to STEAM activities including coding and visual arts while educators are able to engage in tailored professional learning experiences aligned with their goals. The WLC believes that investing in educators is an investment in children. Currently, we provide funding for essential instructional roles including classroom teachers, coaches and paraprofessionals. In total, the WLC supports about 30 full-time school-based roles, 16 of which are located in Red Clay WLC schools. As Dr. Green mentioned, this week students returns from spring break where over
08660 Red Clay students participated in STEAM spring break week at Cab Calloway thanks to our long-standing partnership with 4 Youth and the Cab Calloway Fund. Students engaged in over 20 activities rotating between science, tech and art design challenges. The week was capped off with a family and community showcase where students uh, displayed their work. The turnout was strong and the event radiated with student brilliance. Connecting Wilmington schools across district boundaries is essential to the work of the WLC. We have built bridges across our nine schools through our educator pathway programs where participating educators gather for monthly communities of practice as prac- excuse me, practice access job-embedded coaching joint inspiration visits to innovative school models in other cities, receive support towards successfully completing the Praxis and Parapro exams and advanced degree attainment. From tuition support to
087individual educator microgrants fostering innovation in classrooms WLC educators are able to access resources to support professional growth and the design of unique student learning experiences. While it is still early and many of our programs are only in their second year of full implementation, we are seeing emerging positive data. Last year, nearly a dozen participating educators successfully passed the Praxis as a result of WLC tutoring support while more than three quarters of teacher leader fellows remained at their schools. We can advance to the data slide. Our signature educator support program serve as an example of how to retain educators through relevant support and thoughtfully designed cohort experiences. In addition to connecting schools, the WLC also connects district teams. A great example of this is the ongoing Library of Congress initiative where district social studies departments have
088come together to support educators with teaching materials, professional learning and digital media resources to advance the adoption of House Bill 198. Our monthly learning walks build the capacity of our school leaders in the implementation of the Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System ensuring that educators are well supported. Tomorrow, WLC principals will gather for our monthly principal convening. Another example of how we build community across schools in service of teaching and learning. Finally, our community councils have been activated in all WLC schools providing advocacy training to parents and strengthening school community and family collaboration. The WLC cannot advance any of the programs highlighted this evening without purposeful partnerships. Collectively, we support after-school tutoring, Saturday Saturday literacy programming and summer learning. While any true change effort takes several years to shift outcomes, we are beginning to see
089student growth as evidenced through the district's benchmark assessment tool I-Ready. Looking at uh, mid-year data, students are exceeding typical growth targets. The horizontal red line you see on the chart indicates where students are generally expected to be mid-year. As you can see, Red Clay WLC schools are exceeding that. Research shows that students who consistently exceed I-Ready goals are likely to demonstrate grade level proficiency on the annual state assessment. What's next for the WLC? Um, in spite of um, potential budget cuts, we are committed to protecting the work that matters most including educator support and school-driven solutions. We plan to stay the course prioritizing teaching and learning, educator pipelines, direct services and families as partners. We thank the Red Clay Consolidated School District for their continued trust, partnership and support. Thank you, Dr. Burgos. Dr. Burgos.
090Any questions? Uh, President Lennon, I had a couple questions. Okay. Thank you so much, Dr. Burgos. Good to see you. Thank you for being here. Yep, I'm going to I'm going to pull it up. Trust me, I can be loud. Um I just want a clarification on the data snapshot and maybe this might have to be just offline follow up. I just want a little bit more clarity on what the specific data points were for the goals. Um Do you have that information up there? >> All right. It's best for offline, but students typically have an amount of growth they should make, a typical year's worth of growth. We know, especially for students who may be one or more years behind, that is not sufficient. Students are expected to make to meet their stretch growth
091goals and this could vary, you know, 1.2, 1.3 years of growth. And what the research shows and of course we work closely with um Corey Heacock and our other data leads across districts to better understand how this predicts where students will land on the SBAC, which is the annual state assessment. So what we're seeing, based on recent conversations and mid-year data, is that students are making increased growth across many of our WLC schools, Johnson in particular, in some cases exceeding growth made by other non-WLC Red Clay schools. Great. Awesome. So we'll be able to follow up with you on that. >> Yes, please. And additionally, thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate hearing from you directly from the board. Dr. Green and board member English also VP of the WLC have done
092a great job of providing updates, but having you here is is is always a nice treat. So I want to also just make for the record, we'd love to have you back in a few months particularly as the WLC develops the goals for the upcoming year to present the goals to the board and where we anticipate that way the board has a clear vision and can ask any clarifying questions. The other follow up I wanted to ask you was the agreement. I know that there was some form of a retreat. Hopefully you guys were able to schedule that and progress is being made. I just wanted to know where we were. Absolutely and of course happy to come back June, July and really cap off the year and talk a lot more detail about the
093upcoming academic year. On April 27th, the entire WLC Council as well as our five member team will gather for a retreat where we will be discussing strengths and weaknesses of the work to date and where we may want to go next and that will include a conversation around the MOU. I do want to note also that we have completed a SWOT analysis led by an external partner, Empower Schools, Malik Stewart, who has met with each of our nine schools between the months of January and March. SWOT analysis at each of the nine schools tomorrow we get to dig into that summary report with our principals and amazing data. I mean it really shows the true value of the work to date, but also some very clear next steps in terms of strengthening communication, better messaging
094our efforts and ensuring that we're being as responsive as possible to each of our schools. So much work to be done, but certainly some emerging successes and great work. I think if you talk to our educators, they can tell you in detail how they benefit from this network of support. >> No, absolutely. So back to the agreement, after you have your retreat, would you be able to follow up with the board just on the status of where that conversation led? I would just be interested to see you know how they're feeling. You know, I I certainly want the agreement to be reflective of a lot of the successful work that we have and that way we're not caught up in the compliance things. So yes, I'm excited about that. We'd love to help and contribute
095partner as always. So thank you so much for being here and we'll see you then. >> Thank you. Of course. Thank you, Dr. Burgos. >> Thank you. Thank you. And just just for the board, I know when we had our mid-year workshop with the board, again just to give some data points in in our partnership and collaboration with WLC a lot of their efforts are really supporting a lot of the structural framework that we put in place. So for example, they provide support with School Kit who is working with the team at Shortlidge. And then there was additional resources and being really intentional about where the school set their goals, the WLC being a kind of an accelerator and really looking at their achievement. So just as a example when we talk about mid-year data
096and typical growth would be one year's worth of growth, right? We would expect each student to grow one year. You know, however, we've kind of put the marker out there that we're looking for stretch growth. And so if you look at Shortlidge's stretch growth growth from 2020 winter 2025 to winter 2026, they've increased by 25%. And that's again an effort with working with the WLC, being intentional about that instructional focus, lesson internalization. So we will make sure we do our due diligence to continue to collaborate and make sure that the board moving forward has the information that you're seeking as a result. So thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Green. I think that now I wanted to clarify because it sounded like Jose, you were asking for more of a direct link to the WLC.
097Is that what I'm hearing or or you okay with it being filtered through the district. Oh no, I mean I always appreciate the updates. So just to clarify, mention and thank definitely the updates, but I always love having the executive director here in person. Just great to put face to name. I know great work's happening, but it's always just good just to have a physical check-in I think is important. >> And I wasn't saying that, Mr. Henson, I'm because the the MOU does require Dr. Burgos to give formal updates to the board. Okay. Okay. And maybe perhaps and again as mentioned I'll reiterate just some um coordination to happen offline of when that would be best appropriate. Okay. Thank you. Next presentation, board policies on a review. Dr. Broomall. Good evening. We are here to
098begin the process of a review of three policies. administrative vacancies 8013 school choice and 9004 are committees to the board. Our goal is to outline the next steps including the timeline for the developing of this policy and ways to participate in the process. The policy development process begins with the identification of issues by the board or superintendent. In this case, the board identified some areas that we would like us to review. The first one administrative vacancies. It was thought that there may be some clarity that is needed in regard to this policy. Our draft contains some change in language for the interview committee reflecting what's in our negotiated agreements changing school level or district level vacancies to principal and assistant principal vacancies and the addition of two paraprofessionals to the committee. The next change would
099be that if the superintendent level committee is unable to recommend any candidates the superintendent shall determine if the position will be reposted execute administrative reassignment or designate an acting administrator per policy 4019. Some of the feedback that we had received previously was that if the board appointment from the superintendent and I come from the committee of recommended candidates, if any of the recommended candidates cannot be agreed upon, the position shall be reposted. Policy 8013 there was some concern about the access to the application process particularly for rising ninth graders. We added in to begin the discussion that schools will host a choice information session that each school for students entering ninth grade. That information will include programming at the high school level and how to complete the Delaware school choice application online and or paper
100copy. Mind you, we do have compliance issues there with Title 14. The last one was 9004, committees to the board. One addition that was requested was a work group hybrid is formed as an informational group of individuals as outlined below in the document in the committee members section. The purpose of this work group is to monitor progress in designated projects or areas and report back to the board. A second area that was brought forward with consideration was the recording of standing committees, ad hoc committees and work groups with the visual option and the posting of that material. That had previously been brought forth by the board and voted on. So we will share that as well. The next steps is our draft policies will be online tomorrow for review and comment. A board policy review
101committee meeting April 28th at 5:00 p.m. and a presentation for second reading to the board May 13th with any approved policies being published on the online policy manual. Any questions? I I have a question. It's it's almost like we're being tone deaf. Like Mr. Henson, can you speak up? >> Oh, it's almost like we're being deliberately tone deaf, right? Like all of the language inside of these policies suggest that the community does not get meaningful engagement in anything. Right now, you guys can keep doing that. Like it it You keep doing it, but the reality is the community has said that they want to have their voice heard. So, I think that that's something that we should consider in every policy that we develop, every committee that we develop. There would be no reason for
102a person to spend their time to come and hear a report. Right? Like we They could send that to them by email. They could make a video of it and send it to them. But if they're giving of their time, they're volunteering to come out and be supportive of the district, they're showing that they want to to have input, and what we keep saying is it'll just be an informational session where you can hear what we're saying. I just think that that's fundamentally unfair. I'm not sure the board policy review committee is a listening session. I I think you do have input there. At least uh I've changed quite a few uh revised quite a few of them in the past. Including these two here that are coming up now that uh you will uh
103have information in access to and push forward to another vote, the final vote. The These will be published tomorrow publicly for public input, too. So, it's it's almost like did you guys not hear what I just said? Like I I don't know. I don't I'm not I'm not Like is there Can somebody else please present What I'm saying is it says here it's formed as an informational group of individuals. And you're saying that you're going to post it online. No, I'm saying that will give the community an opportunity to change that language in the policy. >> How Where does it give them any autonomy, any agency, any utility if they're not able to change the policy? Where does that happen at? Well, again, they will provide feedback as the current board policy sits. So, then
104you would just have to change it the I mean again, I'm not arguing and this is just the existing policy that we have to work with and so I'm just I think to the board is give us the direction I because >> I get it. I understand. So, I'm not really talking to you. I'd like to talk to the board. To To the board, this is the the conundrum that we find ourselves in because we're saying that we want to have meaningful input and engagement, but there's no opportunity. The way that the policies are developed or they they feed self-interest. You let the district, who works for um who works for us, essentially, create the very policies that they're going to have to live by. We don't have any We don't have any input. We
105don't even have the board. And Mr. Henson, are you stating, just for point of clarification, that at the board policy review committee meetings, that there's no opportunity for the community to provide input? No, there's no there's no And and just like if you look at the the innovation center, there was multiple people on the committee that said it wasn't ready. They said that they voted no, and we continued to steamroll and push forward because there were so many people on the on the committee from the district that their voice could not be really heard. Plus, we have district personnel chairing those committees, which makes no sense because that that We're basically lending our policy-making responsibility to the district. So, I just I just I I just don't think that it makes sense. Now, we can
106keep doing it, but I'm just telling you my opinion, I don't think it makes sense. It's not prudent, and I think that they've came and said tonight that it's not prudent. What would you add to policy 9004 to make that happen for you? Say it again. Uh What would you put in policy 9004 to satisfy what you're talking about? You have that opportunity to put in an uh an amendment for the policy. What would you do to make that happen? Right, but are you saying that it's not necessarily something in this particular policy that you would change, it's just the structure of how we got here. >> Correct. For one, you can't have the district It It's It's just like like we we allowed the superintendent to run our meetings. That shouldn't be. You're the
107president, you should run the meeting. Right? Number two, the committees, the district should not run the meetings. Someone from the board should run those meetings if we want to have those as committees, but it doesn't make sense to let the district write their own policies. Just a point of clarification, um to clarify, Mr. Leonard is our board president, and he has the dais for the night, and he runs our meetings here at the board meeting. Dr. Green sits at the table as a position and provides his superintendent's report. So, Mr. Leonard does run our school board meetings. I guess so you say, but I was just arguing with the superintendent. I wasn't arguing. So, I had a um President Leonard, I had a couple clarifying questions. Um Mr. Burrows I Dr. Burrows, my apologies. I
108wanted to clarify, when was our board policy review committee meeting? Do we know? I think it was December 3rd. It was January 7th, I believe. >> Okay. All right. So, I'm going to make a suggestion. I think one of the the um areas I think would help alleviate I think a lot of um the unknowns here is is the need for more frequent meetings. Um I know that some of these policies were sent to committee as of last month. Um the board made the motion to send them to committee, but the committee hasn't even met yet, but they're being sent back to us. Um The I I I This is just my input here. I think a lot of the the not necessarily frustration, but some of the has questions that are being sourced from
109a place of not having had the committee meetings. So, a lot of the discussion here could be solved, you know, to that level of detail during the committee meetings. Um so, I know you're the chair of that committee. I would just make um a strong recommendation that to call meetings more frequently. Um you know, ideally, when the board submitted, for example, I'll just pick on my own um proposal for the choice policy, you know, the board I made a proposal, the board sent it to uh board policy uh review committee. It should have gone to committee first prior to them being um sent back to the board. Um because I think the intent really is um not necessarily to dictate the policy, but really make sure that the community um you know, has the opportunity
110to formulate a policy that works for them and um for our parents and for all our stakeholders. So, that's just just a recommendation. I think hopefully that'll help alleviate these moving forward. Any other discussion? Yes, I have a question, just a point of clarification as well. I wonder then I agree with um board member Matthews about um having more meetings and getting more uh community input. I'm also wondering, where is the policy or where is the guidance on these steps to have a policy change completed? Because I believe that that is something that we might need to look at because there is different understandings as far as what the process is. Policy 1006. Okay, thank you. Any others? Yes, I have a a question. So, regarding um Dr. Burrows, for policy 8013 for school choice,
111I noticed that the uh language currently in the proposal is just referring to eighth grade. Um has there been any any consideration to also offering those information sessions for fifth graders? Yes, just in some discussion about There was a concern about eighth graders being able to access the ninth grade choice options, and if some of the um barriers to their application process involved having a family was not necessarily involved. So, that's why we did not dive down here into the fifth grade. Um I'd like to see So, I remember back in my day at Skyline, eighth grade, um having the choice application form handed to us as part of one of my my gym class, and we spent time in the auditorium reviewing the form, and um you know, we were able to ask questions,
112and then I took it home to my mom and shared it with her, and I choiced to Dickinson. So, I'm wondering if we can clarify the language over the next month to include in-school opportunities for students to engage with their teachers in learning about the form and how to fill it out so that they can share it at home with their families and complete the process. Absolutely. This was placed in there as a starting point for discussion. Um so, we're open to any and all good ideas. And anyone else that has ideas, they could email us at [email protected]. Email me directly. Call my office. We're happy to interact, and most definitely come out April 28th to our board policy review committee meeting. Anyone else? Um President Leonard, I just wanted to um thank um uh
113board member Landers for that perspective, um having been uh yourself a Red Clay uh graduate alumni um you know very proudly from Dickinson, um but that was certainly the intent of um the proposal as shared um in previous meetings uh for the review of of the choice policy because the reality is uh living in a digital world, um it's not necessarily always um doesn't always level out the uh playing field um and or or I did certainly see some opportunities to go back to um some of the practices that we had in the past. Um, you know, not all things um in the past were wrong and sometimes they were really good ideas and sometimes they get phased back out and to be able to reintroduce the practice of having an in-school um completion process
114would be um greatly appreciated. So, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Broomall. And our final presentation and uh Mr. Mark Pruitt, attendance zone changes. Good evening, President Leonard, board members, Superintendent Green. Uh I am here this evening to present the district's high school attendance zone recommended changes aligned with the 2025 attendance zone and programming board committee and aligned with their core principles that were approved by this board in July of 2025. The work was completed by the school operations department, district operations department, the Red Clay technology office, and the University of Delaware's Biden School of Public Policy Center of Applied Demography and Survey Research. Uh I'm now going to give an opportunity to Director of Technology Shawn Snyder to take us through uh how we approached the work with the University of Delaware. Thank you, Mr.
115Pruitt. Good evening. Um so uh we had the task obviously of coming up with new attendance zones for a bifurcated school district with two schools based upon Sorry, based upon the guidance given to us from the working group that was established last year. Uh the guiding principles for high school attendance zones changes for the board uh from the board approved plan were to create strong and balanced enrollment across schools, align high school attendance zone boundaries to existing K-8 attendance zone when possible, so to create a straight-line feeder from a middle school to a high school. That was one of the charges and then provide equitable access to quality education for all students. Um the considerations that we gave to Mr. Lasnik at the University of Delaware, who I worked with directly, uh pushing documents back
116and forth and data back and forth to uh create these attendance zones, we were to consider geography and neighborhood schools, capacity of schools, space for the metal wood program, uh demographic breakdowns of both schools that would be intended by creating these new attendance zones. And then the other consideration that is actually an X factor that is not completely predictable is school choice because every family does have the opportunity to go to a non-feeder pattern school. So, we can make a really great plan that balances everything out and choice can impact that um in an unpredictable way. Now, we will use choice numbers from previous years to kind of predict that, but this is a new game. So, it may end up with a different result. Um just a special thank you obviously to Mr. Lasnik
117at University of Delaware. This is the work that he does for the entire state and the region really. We're very lucky to have them in our backyard. Um he actually has like proprietary software that he's developed that allows him to really model these things in a complicated way that I can't do in an Excel spreadsheet. Um so, we're really fortunate to have that partner. He even does work when we transitioned from eSchool to Infinite Campus, his office validated every address in the entire state of Delaware up and down the peninsula, um which is a task that sometimes he would literally get in his car and physically drive to an address to make sure it existed. And that was for I think over 100,000 addresses over the course of a year. So, um he's done a
118lot of really complicated work over the years and that kind of outlines the process uh that we went through to get to the result that Mr. Pruitt's going to show you here in just a moment. Thank you, Shawn. Next slide. The next few slides are really uh some of the key findings from the committee uh and the reason why uh they came up with the core principles that they did. Uh they are slides that that we've all seen multiple times this school year and over the past year and a half. Uh first is that our high school uh boundaries do not align with our K through eight boundaries. Uh you see that McKean pulls students from all four of the middle schools and the other two high schools pull from three of the four schools.
119Um there is no sense of a vertical There's no vertical sense of community uh as can be seen by those decisions. Uh you look there at our elementary to middle school, our our students move from one school to the next. That work was done and aligned in 2015. The last time this work was done at the high school level was 2002 and you can see uh how those students move from middle school to high school. Slide was shown last month. Uh this why while we are Delaware's largest school district, we do some have some of the smallest and most of the smallest attendance zones secondary schools in the state of Delaware. And of course the University of Delaware, that department that we worked with, uh have given a projection of a 3,000 student, as well
120as all across New Castle County, a 3,000 student decline from 2020 to 2050. Uh sort of a a summary of this, uh we just talked through those key findings. No straight-line feeders. Uh while we do educate the same number of high school students, about 5,000, that we have for the past 25 years, we have gone to five from five to seven high schools in our district, which has resulted in under-enrolled schools, uh likely McKean or McKean, Dickinson, or AI at different points in time. We just talked about the uh enrollment through decline projection over the next 30 years. The core principles, Mr. Snyder already went through. Uh the equitable outcomes of strong and strong and and sustainably enrolled schools are, you know, equitable equitable programming for all students, expanded career programming, elective uh expanded elective
121offerings, additional AP and dual enrollment courses, athletic programs, particularly the addition uh of sub-varsity competition, and ac- and comprehensive extracurricular and co-curricular activities for the students who attend those schools. Uh what you see here is our proposal. Um the colors are our current attendance zones, AI du Pont High School in dark blue, McKean in light green, and Dickinson in light blue. And the bold uh boundaries would be the new attendance zones. By feeder pattern, what that means is Alexis I If you live in the Alexis I du Pont middle feeder pattern, your high school attendance zone would be AI High School. You live in HB, AI High School. You live in I'm going to jump down. You live in Stanton, Dickinson High School. Okay? The only division is between Skyline that is a result of
122four of the size of the schools and the percentage of those schools attending our attendance zone high schools in order to get those numbers to fit uh around 1,000, understanding that AI's a little better, was the only division that we were able that we needed to make. Um this slide here shows a a plot graph of where our students that are in high school attend currently, McKean, Dickinson, and AI. Okay? And also a projection uh the most likely projection of these attendance zone schools. So, uh working with the University of Delaware, the most likely projection would put AI High School at 1,124, the John Dickinson High School at 916. It is important to note that in working with them, the um uh it was important to understand that people make may make different choice decisions.
123And so, while we could while there's really not a concern if it was it came in a bit lower, we certainly had to build in enough cushion in case people made more decision uh more decisions to attend those schools based on the programming changes. And so, a high AI High School would be 1,284, an absolute high, and 1,045 at John Dickinson. Okay? It's worth noting that these numbers do not include out-of-district choice. So, we could include and we would be conservative with out-of-district choice at first, but could in fact turn on, so to speak, the the for out-of-district choice if necessary. Uh it also uh does not consider the fact that 150 or more students at the McKean Innovation Center I'm sorry at those schools at any given point in time would be attending the
124McKean Innovation Center. This slide shows you these changes by geography. Right? And the point that that that what I will point out is the change that that when you align as the committee and the board approved when you make these changes there are two sections that of our community that currently attend Dickinson that would move their attendance zone to AI High School. Okay? You see that what would be called like the North Star area in the northwest of the district and part of the north side of the city of Wilmington. We'll go to the next slide. Okay? In those two areas there are approximately 120 students in three grades approximately 120 students in the classes of 28, 29, and 30. Okay? And you're going to see in our recommendation in a couple of slides that
125we will recommend to grandfather those students and in fact give them the choice as to whether they wanted to finish out the grain grade band at Dickinson or move to the new attendance zone at AI High School. New high school attendance zones projected demographics. Understanding that you know school choice plays a role in this, but this is the most likely projection of demographic changes. How to read this will look in the top left corner Hispanic AI High School currently 39% the new projection 36%. I'll give you a moment to look at that information. Also worth noting that this is a first reading. You're going to see on the last slide that our recommendation if understanding there's other things going on at this meeting tonight, but the recommendation would be a vote in 3 months on
126this. Next slide. Here's the recommendation written out. Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year change high school attendance zones to reflect the following feeder patterns. Students with the following middle school attendance zone assignments shall be assigned to the new Alexis I. du Pont High School attendance zone. AI Middle HB Middle and Skyline City portion. Uh students with the following middle school attendance zone shall be assigned to the new John Dickinson High School attendance zone Skyline suburb portion Stanton Middle School. Additionally, students in the graduating classes of 28, 29, and 30 who are currently enrolled at Dickinson and whose new attendance zone will be AI du Pont will be provided a choice remain at Dickinson through graduation transportation will be provided or a second choice to change to Alexis I. du Pont High School which would be
127their new attendance zone. Our recommended timeline for feedback, board approval, and communication after this meeting our plan is to communicate this recommendation to the community. We plan to email our our families also get a letter out to all residents of this change which would include our families and social media. The month of May would allow for feedback from the community. We plan to set up an email link and also have two town halls one in the city of Wilmington and one at McKean High School. In June we will give you an update on that feedback at the June 17th board meeting and in July we recommend voting on this recommendation. Uh that would allow us in September of 2026 to communicate the approved changes to the community so they could make informed choice decisions. Questions?
128Any questions? I I got a question. I wanted I I only got cuz I just want you to write mine down and send it to me by email. So somebody please record this. I want to know who the software guy is, the guy from UD. Want to know his name. Want to know his contact information. And I want to see the raw data that he's using to drive these lines. They and I want to know what he was instructed to do. Like what was his instruction? What was the edict? What was he Like what was he told that he was trying to accomplish by writing these segregated lines? Right? And then Do we have And do we have the most secondary options in the state as a district? Do we have the most secondary schools
129in the state as an option? Because he made he made mention of the fact that we have the lowest number of students attending our secondary schools, the comprehensive buildings in the state. So my question is do we have the most secondary options >> Yes. >> as Okay. So that would be irrelevant to make that point without also because it's almost like the other gentleman said that we have these choice only options that cream the higher performing students in the district and it leaves the other ones open. So most of our like we have like 800 kids at Cab Calloway or not Cab Calloway at Charter School Wilmington, correct? And only have 1,100 kids there. So like 80% of our kids are over there. Right? There are uh >> is not 80% of our kids. 80%
130of their building is our kids. They they have to give preference to Red Clay students. Correct? >> 80% of their building a high percentage of their building is our children. I'm not sure of the exact number. >> be irrelevant to say well we have to do something because we we have a self-inflicted wound. Like that you're essentially saying that there's a crisis but the reality is we created the crisis. That's I agree. I totally agree with him. So that that that's that was the only two things I wanted to know. Sorry. >> Yep. I have a I got a question and comment as well. Um I I also would like to see some of the raw data just as a data and research person. Sure. Um if possible. Um just because I have a concern
131with the breakdown of the demographics. Um and my concern is that because of the projected breakdown of the demographics not to anyone's fault um that that it might not increase the enrollment. Like I think that we we could potentially be dealing with a different issue. Um so I would just like to see the data if possible. We could certainly get the board anything they'd like. I appreciate it. Along those lines about requesting some information was Do we know or just where can we get the information about a cost analysis that was done or was that in part of the person's report when he gave them as far as like drawing the lines for bussing and where the buses need to go for transportation like the cost impact? Did he do that? Was that part of
132the the full report that >> He He would not do a a transportation cost analysis. He did not do a transportation cost analysis. So the district line the proposed district lines were drawn without an understanding of the impact for transportation costs. That's what I'm just trying I'm just trying to understand where that information would be. And I don't know if that is for you. I don't know if there's another cabinet member that can speak to that. Yeah, I I Ask Ask the question again. Yeah. Okay. So we have a proposed attendance zone redrawing for secondary schools. Was transportation funds the money that will be spent to bus students it with the new feeder patterns taken into account when drawing these lines? Um so we're waiting on that information to do that work. Okay. >> So
133So So what I I I think in essence what we would be able to do now that we have these proposed lines Yeah. is to overlay to actually look at what that what that mean for existing routes and how we would have to route existing students based on the new line in terms of the rerouting. So it's a Yeah. Any other discussion? I have one other I have another question. Ms. English, did you have one? Okay. I had another question about the timeline um toward the end the recommended timeline. Um the September 2026 communicate approved changes to the community if we remain on this timeline. Is there anything specific about the 2026 September date? Is that to allow um parents to make choice um >> Yes. for the following year? Yeah, November 1st is when
134choice opens and parents need to have that information to make informed choice decisions. Okay. So, if um timelines are adjusted, this full the next time we would be able to approve a timeline approve a attendance zone restructuring would be July 2027? Correct. >> Correct. Okay, because the doing it in August of 2026 would not provide enough time. 2027 you mean? Yes, that's what I mean for 2027. Like it would have to be July There needs to be time to make the changes in the information system. Okay. Right, so July is as is probably it would be as tight as we would go. We would hope if we pushed it back, we might be able to push the months back. You know, like a March presentation and a June I think would be ideal. Okay. But
135under this timeline, we went with April and July. But June would be ideal. I think June any extra month to do the work on the data and Sean could speak to that better than I could, but yeah, any extra time to do that is is ideal. So, June. Um another quick question. How does and this the hypotheticals how does not having the McCain Innovation Center affect these do these numbers change? How does not having McCain >> we keep McCain the way that it is Yes. Um does that affect this the attendance >> You wouldn't do this. This is what was requested of us through the committee, through your through the board vote in July. Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. So, I um just wanted to uh first of all, thank you so much for coming
136out and presenting, um taking um all of our questions. I know that we have many. Um but one question that came up from the community that I certainly happy to relay. I had never heard of this before, a GIS um map. If there's any way that that folks are really looking to see how they're going to be impacted individually. Um some of the lines in the slides um are they're they're hard and if people live around the area or on the line, um folks don't want to to uh while we go through this process, there are folks who were contacting me, constituents, who don't want to sit here and guess. We can work on getting that, but in the meantime they can go to the middle school attendance zone website. Whatever it tells them their
137middle school is would be their high school attendance zone. Can you add that link to um uh our committee that committee um or the the micro page or the page that we have with all the documents. If we can add it to the page, I think that would be helpful. I think that should suffice. As long as they people have a mechanism of putting in their address and then looking at specifically where they fall um cuz I there's just a lot of folks who you know, are unaware or they're unsure. And the other recommendation um that I have is um thank you for noting the Hispanic population. Um uh Red Clay has certainly um seen a huge, you know, increase um over the years. Uh for the town halls, um if there could be a
138translator available, um specifically for the one in McCain. I just want them to feel included, be included um and have the material um translated to for them so that they are fully understand um they can proceed. Thank you. Yep. Any other questions? Um I I'd have a statement. Like I would like for the board I'm talking to the board. Like I don't think that any of us thinks that this makes sense. Right? And we're trying to inch forward for some unknown I don't know why. Right? But I I would ask us to like you got to do like you got to really dig deep and try to understand why are you trying to protect this? Like what is it that makes us not want to say stop? Because what we need to do because because
139what I think we need to do is because there's more questions that are unanswered than answered. We know that they're being stretched thin because they have full-time jobs and they're being asked to plan an innovation center on on the side. Like that's insane. So, what I'm saying is like for right now, it just has to be relaxed. You don't have to worry about put don't put nothing else up on the website. Like there doesn't need to be anything else up cuz we don't know what we're going to do yet. Like I just think that that's the prudent thing to do. I know that the people going to get mad at me because but the reality is we know that this does not make any sense. That's the only reason why the legislation resolution is on
140the table. Let's not play games with these families, man. And that's it. Any other comments? Thank Thank you, Mr. President. Yep. Thank you. Now, we go to action items. Dr. Green. Action item A, financial position report. It is a recommendation or it is recommended that the Red Clay Board of Education approve the financial position report as of March 31st, 2026 as submitted to include any subsequent revisions approved by the Citizens Budget Oversight Committee. Is there a motion to approve the recommendation? So moved, Beth Fordis. Second, Jackie Matthews. Thank you. It's been properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? Ms. Stevens, please call the vote. Ms. English. Yes. Mr. Hinson. Yes. Ms. Landis. Naz Muhammad Landis, yes. Mr. Matthews. Yes. Ms. Sander. Yes. Ms. Fordis. Yes. Mr. Leonard. Yes. Unanimous motion carries. Action item B, it is
141recommended that the Red Clay Board of Education approve a $600 donation from Richard Chester to a student at HB DuPont Middle School for trip expenses to the Business Professionals of America BPA National Leadership Conference. Is there a motion to approve the recommendation? So moved, Jackie Matthews. Second, English. Thank you. It's been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Thank you, Richard. Very generous. Thank you very >> Thank you, Mr. Chester. Ms. Stevens, please call the vote. Ms. English. Yes. Mr. Hinson. Yes. Ms. Landis. Naz Muhammad Landis, yes. Mr. Matthews. Yes. Ms. Sander. Yes. Ms. Fordis. Yes. Mr. Leonard. Yes. Unanimous motion carries. Action item C, it is recommended that the Red Clay Board of Education approve a postponement to the implementation of the Reimagining Schools plan for the McCain Innovation Campus in accordance with
142the implementation postponement resolution. Naz Muhammad Landis, so moved. Second, English. Sorry, you still Do you want to read that for Do we So, may I speak to my motion? I second the motion. So I think my second There was a second. There was a second. Ms. English. Remember English. Yeah. So, you have a Okay. The motion is properly seconded. All right. So, I would just like to speak into the record um the portion of the resolution after the whereases um so that I just clear what we're looking for. Um so now therefore be it resolved that the Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of Education imposes a postponement of the implementation start date the Reimagining Secondary Education proposal. This postponement shall remain in effect until the Board of Education affirmatively votes in a public session
143to lift the postponement upon finding that all conditions set forth herein have been fully satisfied. The following conditions must be fully met and documented before the Board may consider a vote to end postponement by establishing a new start date. One, a clearly defined, publicly posted, phased transition plan ensuring that current student cohorts, including the class of 2029, have the ability to complete their high school careers with stability and continuity. Two, a comprehensive communications plan for students, families, educators, and community members that includes information meetings, listening sessions, and multilingual digital and print communications. The plan must include an outline of the changes for current and future families, including but not limited to transportation, feeder pattern, location of programming, and timeline. All materials must be posted publicly on the district website. Three, documented student engagement efforts, including
144forums and or structured listening sessions to ensure student voice is incorporated into planning. Student input must be formally recorded, summarized, and incorporated into planning documents. Four, formal communication and professional development for educators and staff so they are equipped with accurate information and resources to support students and families during a transition. Five, direct engagement with all community stakeholders, including Meadowbrook families and feeder school communities through public open forums, scheduled tours, and open house opportunities. Six, communication to feeder middle school families and incoming students in multiple languages and utilizing multiple platforms, including but not limited to signed written acknowledgement of the program structure and expectations. All communication materials, including the template written acknowledgement, must be publicly posted and accessible, including on the district website and school websites with middle school programming. Seven, public release of all planned
145district informational materials in multiple languages, including video communications and mass media updates to ensure transparency across the district. All materials must be publicly posted to the district website. Eight, documentation of all community engagement activities, including but not limited to district personnel and board members in attendance, number of community members in attendance, meeting recordings with captions, summaries of community input with responsive actions by the district. All documentation must be publicly posted on the district website. Nine, a formal equity analysis examining the impact of the reimagining secondary schools plan on all students, including but not limited to students with disabilities, English language learners, economically disadvantaged students, and students in specialized programs. The analysis must include enrollment data, demographic comparisons, and program access metrics. The analysis must be posted publicly and presented to the board in a regularly
146scheduled board public session. 10, a formal IDEA compliance report examining the proposed reimagining secondary schools plan satisfies the district's obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Results must be posted publicly and presented to the board in a regularly scheduled board public session. 11, a formal report detailing impacts of an MIC model, including but not limited to transportation times, instructional time, CTE funding allocations, and staffing changes. This report must be posted publicly and presented to the board in a regularly scheduled board public session. Be it further resolved that the board directs the administration to return with an updated implementation plan that addresses each condition set forth above, accompanied by documentary evidence of completion before the board considers a vote to end the postponement by establishing a new start date for implementation of the reimagining secondary
147schools plan. So, I wanted to speak that into record just to clarify what I have heard over my four months joining the school board, and I'm sure what other board members have also heard from the community. You have not been unheard. We've been listening. And we want to acknowledge that or I want to acknowledge uh cuz I speak for myself. Um uh that I I recognize that we need to do more to engage meaningfully with the community about any changes that we uh go forth with. Um this wasn't an easy decision, but it's been weighing heavy on me, and I knew that we need to I feel that we need to take a step back and hear from our community and help them shape any major changes that happen. I don't want to see any
148schools close. I don't want to see any teachers or educators lose their jobs. I don't want to see students anxious and nervous and upset by changes that they feel that they had no input in. So, I'm hoping that with the conditions that we've outlined and um you know, note that I didn't write this all myself. I've had a lot of input from several people. Um I hope that this is a step in the right direction. Um I'll I'll leave that at that. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion? Um I just wanted to point out that in the resolution, this um the phrase postponement was utilized. This is not a stopping of, this is not a moratorium. The way it's been read into record by Ms. Landis is that this is a postponement until these items
149are completed. And this is a result of a vote that happened last July where um I was a part of after attending the the community meetings prior to being on the board. Um we had asked for some information. It was not progressing as much as we had wanted. The district website was updated in December. We still felt as a board that we were looking for more information. We put together the um commu- the committee, the attendance zone committee, where we were asking for more information. As a board, we were feeling as though we still were not getting it, and this is the result of that time. So, we have laid it clearly out um to hopefully set the direction uh to govern the district appropriately with clarity from input from our community. Thank you. Any
150other discussion? I I would like to make a recommendation that like I think that there needs to be us giving clear direction because it sounds like the board is they're saying that it's y'all that did this. So, I think that it's going to be important it's it's imperative that you guys understand that you number one, you're going to have to give them clear direction as to what it is that you're looking for, and I think that that's a great start. But number two, we understand that we're under-resourced in terms of human personnel to be able to accomplish those things. Like you uh Pruitt has a full-time job managing schools. That it it it's unfair to say now, we can say, "Well, he can do it." No, that's not that's just not the way things are
151done. So, we need to look out at look at maybe getting a consultant to come in and to kind of lead us and guide us, but I think it's unfair I just think it's it it's not doable. There's no way that he can do this monumental task and do his full-time job. That's just not even reasonable. That's it. I'm sorry. No, I I think um Frankly, I would like to propose an amendment to the proposal. Um set Excuse me. Uh the term postponement is indefinite, um which means there will be no momentum, there will be no moving forward. And we recently attended a conference in San Antonio of school boards. Um session after session that I attended made it very clear that the current state of our public schools in the United States is slowly
152declining. We've lost students to choice, which if I have a problems with that as well, we as a board can do nothing to change choice schooling. Only your legislators can do that. So, that's a an issue we have to take up with our legislators legislators. District after district is having to close schools. Our host city of San Antonio currently went through 14 school closures in one year. Philadelphia, as you probably know from the news, is also facing school closures. Uh Phoenix, Arizona, throughout the United States, this is happening to school district after school district. We're dealing with decreasing funds. We're uh we are seeing declining student population throughout the entire United States. Make no mistake, the change is coming to Red Clay. We are not immune to it. Things will happen to our schools that
153we will have no control over unless we control the change. I would like to propose an amendment that will put a one-year extension on the planning to give our leaders a full and clear pathway to continue this without the plan falling apart. I believe the language that um just uh maybe this is a question for Ms. Landis Ms. Landis. Um the language in the resolution is to postpone until the resolution is complete. So, that allows for the work to continue, the planning to continue while we're while the district is being asked to engage with the community in a more meaningful way by posting items on the school district website, and it's also allowing the district to decide what their timeline is. They could look at some of these things and not do them until 2027
154if they so chose. They could look at these and start planning some things already. The attendance zone meetings that are already happening at the town halls, there's some things that are in the resolution that they could easily fold in and combine together. So, by not having a timeline on it, it actually provides more opportunity for the work to work at a more at the rate that you were speaking of, where it will not lose momentum. It allows the work to continue forward. May I have some input by the administrators who are currently doing the planning, and by the way, they have put in hundreds and hundreds of hours across all of our our So, if if if if I may cross the board, they've put in hundreds of hours of work, and I would hate
155to see the dedication of our staff Again, we we were we were given a charge albeit by a prior board to address an issue that's been 30 years in the making. And I think the reality that we need to confront as a district, going back to the point that was shared in the presentation that Mr. Henson clarified. We are the largest most diverse comprehensive school district in the state of Delaware with the diverse number of offerings. We were the first to charter school. We were the first to implement magnet schools, although the state technically doesn't even recognize magnet as a official designation of a school, but Red Clay has determined that we have magnet schools. Those schools give Red Clay students, families, and community preference. And it's come at the expense over the last 25
156years for each of our comprehensive high schools. So, as you gave us a charge to address an issue for declining enrollment in our comprehensive high schools that's the work that we've embarked in since November, actually prior to November 2024. But, since November 2012 2024 when we got this official charge you're now coming, albeit again, hearing from community but of community input from the board as we engage on this process says that we close a school or close two schools as a result of it. We have to get to Mr. Henson's point, clear direction and we've already engaged with the Southern Regional Education Board, we have very other the the state chamber has has reached out and and offering support. There there is a whole host of things that we have to consider because it's not
157continue the work, but we also are expecting the work to change. So I would ask that we have the opportunity to really digest this resolution and for the board to consider, and if you say we're pausing because postponement until all of these stipulations are met could inevitably push us out 2 years from now. And if the Innovation Center isn't something that the board fully supports the board also has to consider policies that you have giving preference to our choice and magnet options that has really led to to Mr. Pruitt's point, we've been educating the same number of high school students across Red Clay for the last 25 years, but we increased the number of available seats. We've also increased the number of middle Excuse me, thank you. We've all we've also increased the number of
158We We've also increased the number of middle schools in our district with declining enrollment where Skyline has served 700 to 750 children for about 50 years, and now they find themselves at 381. So, the the the rebalancing of feeder pattern again was based on it. So, whatever direction the board gives us, we're going to roll up our sleeves and do it. But, to a point how does the board want us to go about looking at the stipulations in this resolution? I'm not wedded to any plan. I'm concerned about what we do for children how we're preparing them because we're going to graduate students are going to walk across our stage in June. They're going to turn their tassel. They're going to be excited about graduating. And then 2 months beyond that there's a concern about
159the forgotten half of our district who won't be able to access much of anything because we know a high school diploma isn't sufficient Yep. in this current climate. And so however the board directs us, again, we were given a charge in November 2024. And that's the way we approached it. If there's a new charge, a new stipulation based on this resolution we're going to roll up our sleeves and do the work accordingly. I think that the resolution is extraordinarily clear. She's saying postpone it. The community agrees with it. They participated in the crafting of it. Now, if we're going to be so tone-deaf as to go right back down in that rabbit hole No. that's up to y'all. I'm voting yes on this. I'm not thinking about that motion. I'm voting yes on the original
160resolution. But, I go back to the point that you the last point What I'm willing to do is be more supportive of making sure that we as a board understand what charge we're given, and we give you guys the support to make sure that whatever we come up with can actually happen. Like to to just say to you guys, figure this out and you're trying to work three jobs in one. I think that that was fundamentally unfair to be given. But So, yeah, so we would welcome that charge from the board. But, I don't necessarily I don't know I don't know what we doing with that motion. I'm with the resolution. I'll just tell you where I'm at. President Leonard, I'd like to call the vote. Well, we have a motion on table. I get
161It wasn't seconded, so the motion fails. Yeah, I'd like to call the vote. Okay. All right. So We You want me to read it again? Yep, let's read it again. We had um Board member Landis and make the motion and Board member English second. And again, you're the recommended action is the Red Clay. It is recommended that the Red Clay Board of Education approve the postponement to the implementation of the Reimagining Schools Plan for the McCain Innovation Campus in accordance with the implementation postponement resolution. Is there a motion to approve the recommendation? You already have the motion. I'm just reading it. Okay, sorry. Uh We're ready for Call the vote, please. Ms. English Yes. Mr. Henson Yes. Ms. Landis Najma Landis, yes. Mr. Matthews Yes. Ms. Sander No. Ms. Twardus Yes. Mr. Leonard Yes. Six
162yes, one no. Motion passes. So, with that being um the case, and before we go on to the next action item can we have it on the record that the board will give us a clear charge at the May board meeting? Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Action item D, FY26 school facilities assessment, and I just want to clarify just for the board. So, this is in accordance with Senate Bill 270 from the 101st General Assembly. It requires us to complete yearly facilities uh reports and approve maintenance plans, which again, those plans just have to be approved by the board before we submit them. So, it is recommended that the Red Clay Board of Education approve the facilities assessment plans as submitted. Is there a motion to approve the recommendation? So moved, President Matthews. Is there
163a second? Second, Beth Twardus. It's a properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? Ms. Stevens, please call the vote. Ms. English Yes. Mr. Henson Yes. Ms. Landis Najma Landis, yes. Mr. Matthews Yes. Ms. Sander Yes. Ms. Twardus Yes. Mr. Leonard Yes. Unanimous, motion carries. Thank you. All right, action side of consent items. Does anything need to be removed from the consent items before we move? Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Najma Landis, I move approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second, Beth Twardus. Thank you. It's a properly moved and seconded to approve the agenda. All in favor? I. Opposed? Motion carries. Okay. All right, school board committee reports. Attendance Zone Restructuring Review Committee Any report? Who's on that committee? What I'd like to point out is Yep, moot point. All
164right. Uh Seabock from 414. Sure, this was last night. And um uh new business was basically the financial position report uh which is in board docs. Uh this report's done three times a year and the goal is actually to ensure that the district can make their payroll. Uh the report reflects the income income versus expenses and projected salaries and we are in a very good position financially. We will be able to meet our obligations uh throughout the school year. Um currently uh our district has realized over 100% of our revenue and a lot of this had to do as um Mr. M pointed out um a lot of this is due to reduced uh lower estimates um back taxes and debts collected. So, we're in a a good position there. Um uh the audit report
165was also reviewed. There were findings uh in four areas. All have been addressed with the exception of one issue which is debt services and that seems to be uh throughout the state there's a little bit of debate on that. Uh so, everything's been addressed. Thank you, Ms. Sanders. Uh Red Clay Education Foundation. Yes, RCEF met yesterday. Um the back-to-school block party proposal was presented uh by Ms. April Anderson. Uh we will hold our fourth annual back-to-school block party. Um we actually will host it again at the John Dickinson School campus um but it will be before school starts. Um typically the back-to-school block party is after but because of how late Labor Day is in the school year um at the start of the school year we will host that um actually 2 days before
166the official kickoff of school. So, it'll be a good opportunity All of our vendors um and partners have already signed up. It's a wonderful opportunity again for the community. Um in addition gave uh just a district update as to where we are. Uh there was a financial update uh update on the golf tournament which again is listed in my board report. There's still time um to participate and sign up for the annual golf outing. Again, the proceeds support uh our uh on how students and families as well as arts programs and things throughout the district. And that was the gist of the RCEF meeting yesterday. Okay, thank you. Uh One thing Learning Collaborative from 401. I'll be 402. I guess Dr. Green had cuz of budget hearings for the city I wasn't able to attend.
167>> Yes, and I also had a conflict um however, given Dr. Burgos's report tonight I think the formal update that you received from the executive director of WLC should suffice for that report. Um we are monitoring um JFC in the budget markup. I do want to thank Dr. Huffman for um participating in that meeting on the first of May stay. Um one of the the conversations was just support around some summer programming. Um work we have with uh Get Delaware Reading in partnership with the United Way. Um but again, I think Dr. Burgos's report should suffice. Okay, and then I will have a report for May just for the sake of um community awareness. All right, thank you all. Uh no items submitted by the board. Information items. So, we're in adjournment. Next meeting is
168May 13th at Cab Calloway. May I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? So moved. So moved. Okay, we're back at Cab. This is our last meeting here at the Richardson Park auditorium. Thank you to our Richardson Park staff, custodial staff for being generous hosts. All in favor. I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Thank you all.