May 7 2025
Board Meeting

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1. Board Committee Report
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   • • Board Member Jose Matthews provided an update on the Secondary Attendance Zone & Programming Committee May 1 meeting. The meeting had strong attendance, and he noted an additional date was added for May 21; The July timeline is a point of discussion and the committee is narrowing down the recommendations. 

     • Board Member Vic Leonard asked how many scenarios remain; Dorrell Green explained that CTE Innovation and reduction of a middle school are remaining scenarios and discussed plans for stakeholder input.

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Jose Matthews: So we did have a couple of meetings since our last meeting. Up first we have the April 15th meeting. We had several Board members in attendance and I believe that one was actually already presented on at the last meeting. But really, most importantly, we had our May 1st meeting was really well attended. We had to add an additional time for us to stick to the timeline that we have presented by the Board. The timeline continues to be a point of discussion. At this time we still are on target projecting to provide recommendations from the committee to the Board in at the July meeting. So they have until the end of June to submit that.

And the biggest focus and area of progress during the last meeting is that from all of the public recommendations that the committee has set out for consideration, they started to narrow down some of the ideas and recommendations that they want to provide.

So there still are a couple of meetings that are currently scheduled.This does not mean that we may not have additional meetings within this timeline, but our next meeting is Wednesday, May 21st at 6 p.m.as always at the District office Boardroom and our last meeting will be June 17th, 2025 at 6 p.m. District office in the Boardroom.

Also a big reminder, as Dr. Green presented in his Superintendent report, the website has been beautifully updated. This includes all of the committee microsites or pages within the website. So there is a lot of great information, and for anyone who may have missed any of the past meetings the minutes are there, but then the great thing about the site also is that it has the link directly to the meeting video recording for those who would like to tune in. There's contact information, for our chair Dr. Mark Pruitt, if there's any questions, that aren't answered within the materials that are provided.

Any questions?

Vic Leonard: Yeah, I’d just like to ask a question. I know we started, the last - I wasn’t able to make the last meeting - Secondary Attendance Zone, and I know we started, I believe, with 11 scenarios and we eliminated a few. So how many are there now as far as scenarios?

Dorrell Green: So there really were two really to prioritize. One was to looking at, the nature of a CTE Innovation Center or looking at expansion of IB and then the reduction of 8 to 7 in terms of middle school programs because they were interrelated. So if you did one there was going to be a domino effect in terms of changes that needed to be made in other areas. So the committee really had some fruitful discussion and wanted some additional information. We are also in the process of formulating a community survey to be able to support and get broader feedback, but then the process of what would a town hall and/or some focus groups look like to ensure that we're getting broad stakeholder input around concrete ideas and not kind of some philosophical things that were floating out there. So it kind of got reduced to really two secondary things that will have some domino effects in terms of the implications for the broader community.

🌐Secondary Attendance Zone & Programming Committee webpage 

May 21, 2025 Meeting Materials 

📁Secondary Attendance Zone & Programming Committee Meeting Rolling Slides May 1, 2025 

📹Secondary Attendance Zone & Programming Committee May 1 Meeting Recording

📄Secondary Attendance Zone & Programming Committee May 1 Meeting Minutes For convenience, the full meeting minutes are typed below.

May 1, 2025 / 6:00 PM / RCCSD Board Rm, 1502 Spruce Ave, Wilmington, DE 19805 Zoom Meeting (For public only. Committee members are in person.) 

Attendance/Welcome Jason Bastianelli, Tawanda Bond, Emily Carroll, Dorrell Green, Antonio Gomes, Jose Matthews, Caitlin Merto, Mark Pruitt Jr , Jennifer Recchiuti, Madeleine Reitemeyer, Eric Sanford, Shawn Snyder, Reggie Worlds 

Dr. Bond made a motion to begin the meeting, seconded by Mr. Worlds. Motion passed. 

Agenda Items 

Opening Items

• Public Comment - None

• Approve Minutes from April 15th. Mr. Snyder made a motion to approve the minutes from April 15th, seconded by Mr. Sanford. Motion passed. 

New Business

• The Committee’s Charge/Goal - Mr. Pruitt

• Meeting Norms - Mr. Pruitt 

• Tentative Timeline - Mr. Pruitt 

• Brainstorming Recap - All 

• Analysis & Discussion - All 

• Straw Poll Data Discussion - All 

• Discussion around an online school 6-12(students would have A-Z homeschool). Discussion of how this item aligns with the committee’s charge statement. The committee agrees the idea has merit and enough interest to recommend the board look at this as a separate topic at a future board meeting. 

• Narrowing Possibilities -Discussion started with options that garnered little to no response from the straw poll. 

  • Capping Conrad and Cab at smaller enrollments. This action did not receive any consideration via the straw poll and was removed from further consideration. 

  • Move AI middle to AI High to create one 6-12 A-Z program. This action received 2 Red Clay Consolidated School District 1 votes of interest to move forward. Discussion - this move would limit high school capacity enrollment at AI High. Not aligned with the committee’s charge. It was removed from further consideration. 

  • Reduce to 2 attendance zone high schools and relocate the Charter School of Wilmington to the open site- Mr. Pruitt made a motion to remove the idea due to not enough support by the committee. Discussion- what to put here? Motion seconded by Ms. Metro. Motion passed 11 yes 2 abstain. It was removed from further consideration. 

  • Mr. Pruitt made a motion to remove “provide equitable choice bussing for all students to all schools.” Discussion - available resources and funding to offer neighborhood bus stops to 26 schools for any Red Clay student who accepts a choice seat within the district is lacking. Mr. Gomes seconded the motion. Motion passed 11 yes 2 no. It was removed from further consideration. 

  • There was broad discussion on remaining ideas. 

Public Comment - Dr. Triebenbacher, Nate Bird, Jennifer Howard 

Adjourn - Mr. Matthews made a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Ms. Merto. Motion passed. 

• Action Items Provide current enrollment statistics for Red Clay CTE programs. 

• Provide possible models for CTE center. 

Next Meeting May 21, 2025 @6pm at RCCSD Board Rm, 1502 Spruce Ave, Wilmington, DE 19805