DOEDAPSS021318

In The Matter Of:
Delaware Department of Education

In re: Delaware Academy of Public Safety & Security
Public Hearing
February 13, 2018
Wilcox & Fetzer, Ltd.

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Wilmington, DE 19801
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Original File Dept of Education 02-13-18 Hearing Delaware Academy.txt

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STATE OF DELAWARE
DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
IN RE: DELAWARE ACADEMY :

OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY:
Public Hearing taken pursuant
to notice at the EastSide/CSNC Administration
Building, 1101 Delaware Street, New Castle,
Delaware, beginning at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday,
February 13, 2018, before Gloria M. D'Amore,
Registered Professional Reporter and Notary
Public.
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WILCOX & FETZER

Registered Professional Reporters
1330 King Street - Wilmington, Delaware 19801
(302) 655-0477
www.wilfet.com
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1 APPEARANCES:
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On behalf of the State of Delaware
3 Delaware Department of Education:
DENISE STOUFFER,
4 LEAD EDUCATION ASSOCIATE
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On behalf of the State of Delaware
6 Delaware Department of Justice:
CATHERINE T. HICKEY, ESQUIRE
7 Attorney for State of Delaware
Department of Education
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1 MS. STOUFFER: Good evening. I
2 declare this public hearing to be open.
3 My name is Denise Stouffer. I
4 am the Lead Education Associate, and I have
5 been appointed by the Secretary of Education
6 to conduct this public hearing.
7 At this time, I would ask the
8 Member of my Committee to introduce herself
9 for the record.
10 MS. HICKEY: My name is
11 Catherine Hickey. I am a Deputy Attorney
12 General with the Delaware Department of
13 Justice. I am serving as Counsel to The
14 Hearing Officer.
15 MS. STOUFFER: The Charter of
16 Delaware Academy of Public Safety and
17 Security Charter School was placed on formal
18 review by the Department of Education with
19 the assent of State Board of Education.
20 As required by law, the matter
21 was referred to the Charter School
22 Accountability Committee for investigation
23 and report.
24 This is a joint public hearing.

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1 This joint public hearing is being held by
2 the Department of Education and the State
3 Board of Education to assist in the decision
4 of whether the criteria set forth for
5 remedial action in the Delaware Code has been
6 satisfied.
7 This hearing provides the
8 school an opportunity to receive public
9 comment about this formal review.
10 I would like the record to
11 reflect that the notice of the time, date and
12 place of today's public hearing was published
13 in The News Journal and The Delaware State
14 News on January 23, 2018.
15 In addition, notice was posted
16 at the Charter School Accountability
17 Committee's official place of business on the
18 Department of Education's official website
19 and on the State Public Meeting Calendar on
20 the State's official website on January 9,
21 2018.
22 Further, the Applicant was
23 personally notified of the time, date, and
24 place of today's public hearing on

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1 January 18, 2018.
2 A court reporter is present so
3 that a record of this hearing can be made.
4 It will be necessary for each speaker to
5 clearly identify his or herself before
6 beginning to speak so that the court reporter
7 will be able to note who you are.
8 The record of this hearing will
9 be provided to the Secretary of Education and
10 the Members of the State Board of Education
11 together with any written or electronic
12 comments received during the course of the
13 formal review process.
14 To date, comments received for
15 the formal review are listed on the Charter
16 School's official website.
17 We will proceed in the
18 following manner.
19 First, we will hear from any
20 representatives of the Charter School who
21 wish to comment on the formal review process.
22 Then we will take comments from anyone else
23 who desires to speak.
24 There are sign-up sheets to the

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1 left of me at the table by the door. If you
2 desire to speak, please sign up now. I will
3 now pause for a moment to permit anyone who
4 desires to speak to sign up.
5 First, however, can I have a
6 show of hands of all those who desire to make
7 comments so I may determine whether it may be
8 necessary to impose a time limit. Anybody
9 who wishes to speak.
10 We're going to go off the
11 record so I can grab the sheets.
12 MS. STOUFFER: Off the record.
13 (Off the record.)
14 MS. STOUFFER: Back on the
15 record.
16 (Back on the record.)
17 MS. STOUFFER: We'll check the
18 lists again as a part of this meeting.
19 Considering the number of
20 people that would like to make comments, we
21 will reserve comment to five minutes.
22 We also reserve the right to
23 limit comment if it is purely repetitive or
24 cumulative.
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1 At this point, I will accept
2 comments from any representatives of the
3 school.
4 MS. MARGIE LOPEZ-WAITE: Good
5 evening. My name is Margie Lopez-Waite.
6 L-O-P-E-Z W-A-I-T-E. And I am the
7 Chairperson of the DAPSS Board of Directors.
8 And first, I just want to thank
9 the DAPSS students, staff and families for
10 joining us this evening. Your presence is
11 very important.
12 I just want to make an opening
13 comment and then hand it off to the other
14 speakers.
15 DAPSS opened in 2011 to provide
16 students with a pathway into public safety
17 and security careers. It's our seventh year
18 of operation, and we've had our share of
19 struggles as a school community.
20 However, we stand here today as
21 a united community fighting for our school.
22 We acknowledge and take responsibility for
23 mistakes in the past. But we ask that you do
24 not allow the students to bear the sins of

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1 their father.
2 We owe it to these students to
3 get this train back on track and to make sure
4 they master the necessary skills to graduate
5 high school and transition successfully into
6 careers and college.
7 Getting the train back on track
8 will require a transformation of DAPSS which
9 we are confident we can accomplish with the
10 help of key strategic partners.
11 We look forward to sharing the
12 details of that plan in our written response
13 to the Charter Schools Accountability
14 Committee this Friday.
15 For now, we want you to hear
16 from our school community.
17 Thank you for your time and
18 consideration.
19 We have several students that
20 wanted to be in attendance that couldn't be.
21 We want to submit letters. Those are the
22 originals.
23 MS. STOUFFER: Thank you.
24 MR. HERB SHELDON: My name is

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1 Herb Sheldon. H-E-R-B S-H-E-L-D-O-N.
2 Good evening, Staff, Cadets,
3 Families and Representatives from the DOE.
4 My name is Herb Sheldon. I'm
5 the Head of School.
6 DAPSS has a mission focused
7 both on college readiness and career
8 preparation in the areas of first responders.
9 As a college preparatory
10 academy with a career focus, DAPSS will open
11 up a world of opportunities for cadets while
12 developing and expanding both their
13 individual knowledge and personal skill sets.
14 DAPSS cadets will represent
15 discipline, honor and structure. Our core
16 values of fidelity to others, diligence to
17 succeed and scholarship in the classroom
18 serve to help all cadets succeed both now and
19 in the future.
20 As the Head of School of
22 Security, I truly believe in the mission and
23 vision of our Academy.
24 I would like to take this time

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1 to acknowledge this formal review process,
2 not as the Department of Education versus the
3 DAPSS community, but as a reminder that the
4 education, life skills and career readiness
5 of our cadets is most important.
6 It is easy from the outside
7 looking in to say that enrollment is
8 declining and the proficiency levels are
9 poor. However, I believe our challenges have
10 not been due to a lack of effort from
11 students, staff and families. Our growth has
12 been stymied, quite frankly, due to the lack
13 of execution.
14 I'd ask all to not approach
15 this review process as an, I got you moment,
16 or to blame one another. But rather, a point
17 to self reflect and ask themselves, What am I
18 doing to improve the education, life and
19 career goals of our students.
20 The fact is DAPSS has room to
21 improve. In the coming week, our Board of
22 Directors and Administration and staff will
23 present a transformation plan. The
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1 families of DAPSS.
2 Please understand there is
3 commitment, support and belief that the
4 Academy will stabilize and grow in the very
5 near future.
6 Please stay committed to us as
7 we are very much to you.
8 To the Department of Education,
9 at our initial CASC meeting, our Board
10 President requested a one-year extension to
11 transform the Academy.
12 I would like to echo the same
13 sentiment, and respectfully ask that that
14 request be honored.
15 DR. ERICA THOMAS: My name is
16 Dr. Erica Thomas. I'm the Director of
17 Curriculum and Instruction at the Academy.
18 When I first came to the
19 Academy in August of 2016, I was so excited
20 to be a part of such an amazing mission.
21 We were training students for
22 potential careers to serve our communities as
23 firefighters, police officers, and EMTs.
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1 line of public service as well. My
2 grandfather served in World War II. My
3 father was an Air Force Pilot and my son is
4 continuing the tradition as a soon-to-be Air
5 Force Officer.
6 I felt I could also contribute
7 as a public servant in my own way as an
8 educator.
9 I was hired to be the Director
10 of Curriculum and Instruction fully knowing I
11 had a monumental task at hand by looking at
12 the school's data from prior years.
13 I believed that with my
14 qualifications and years of teaching
15 experience in the Delaware public school
16 system for over two years, I could accomplish
17 the goal of increasing student achievement
18 with my deep understanding and knowledge of
19 the educational process.
20 During my tenure at the
21 Academy, it has proven to have been quite
22 tumultuous at times. Whereas, the previous
23 administration seemingly did not have the
24 same concentrated focus on instruction as I

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1 do, I came in with a strategic plan
2 implementing LF, Read 180, IXL, many other
3 research-based practices that we've put in
4 place, and we will give you in the CSAC
5 rebuttal.
6 I know the Academy is capable
7 of doing a whole lot better than what the
8 achievement scores show, but I was stymied in
9 my implementation of a teaching/learning
10 model through a series of professional
11 development and professional learning
12 communities.
13 One criticism I received
14 recently was that I am underqualified to be
15 the Director of Curriculum and Instruction --
16 coming from someone who does not have a
17 degree -- a Doctorate in Educational
18 Leadership and experience in various aspects
19 above and beyond that within the educational
20 community -- I find this disrespectful
21 because my efforts have been stymied by the
22 lack of educational leadership at the Academy
23 which before I arrived was filled with
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1 In essence, a double-edged
2 sword. My innovative ideas were not
3 supported for reasons unbeknownst to me given
4 my knowledge of best research based
5 practices.
6 I was consistently told not to
7 provide academic and behavioral best
8 practices for no apparent reason and ran into
9 roadblocks at every turn along the way.
10 I came to this school and
11 stepped up to the challenge to improve things
12 for students. I was told I was going to be
13 given autonomy to create changes. However,
14 through Academy leadership, education best
15 practices were secondary to maintaining
16 personal relationships. Moreover, I was
17 undermined and a culture of distrust and
18 suspicion was created.
19 I came to the Academy to raise
20 expectations. I came to the Academy with all
21 of the greatest intentions. I still believe
22 in the school and its mission. The students
23 and staff deserve a whole lot better, but
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1 made very clear to me that I am not the top.
2 I have taken directives. I have finished
3 tasks and I did as a good soldier would.
4 That's it.
5 MS. STOUFFER: Any other
6 representatives of the school that wish to
7 speak?
8 MS. KIM WHYTE: My name is Kim
9 Whyte. I am the Director of Special
10 Education of Cadet Services at DAPSS.
11 My primary focus in this role
12 is to oversee the Special Education
13 Department at the Academy. I believe that
14 what permits me to do so well in my role is
15 my passion for ensuring that our cadets are
16 provided with a free appropriate public
17 education with the key word being
18 appropriate. Appropriate can vary meaning
19 depending on who you ask. However, at DAPSS,
20 we believe that appropriate begins with an
21 understanding that if cadets cannot learn the
22 way we teach, we teach in a way that they can
23 learn.
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1 that our meaning of appropriate is not fair.
2 However, at the Academy we believe that fair
3 is everyone getting the same thing. Rather,
4 fair is everyone getting what he or she needs
5 in order to be successful.
6 When seeking employment, I was
7 drawn to DAPSS based on several factors.
8 Perhaps, the factor that draws our cadets
9 here as well.
10 DAPSS is an equal opportunity
11 educator. We educate everyone, and no
12 student is denied a free appropriate public
13 education, or the opportunity to fill their
14 dream of becoming a hero because of race,
15 color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual
16 orientation, disability, test scores, lack of
17 achievement or socioeconomic background.
18 We teach students the skills
19 that they need to become successful members
20 of society. We create a sense of belonging
21 because we genuinely believe in them. We
22 provide them with a place they call home, a
23 second family, a chance to be somebody.
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1 cases, from a traumatic reality that awaits
2 them beyond the walls of our DAPSS building.
3 At DAPSS, cadets are taught you
4 do not need to be a scholar in order to be
5 somebody's hero.
6 I am asking that you provide us
7 with a longer amount of time in order to
8 continue their hopes and dreams alive so we
9 can continue to foster hope and belief in
10 them that they can be whatever they want to
11 be.
12 Thank you.
13 MR. DAVID WAINWRIGHT: I have a
14 question.
15 Are teachers allowed to speak
16 during this part, too, or are they part of
17 the public session?
18 MS. STOUFFER: They are
19 typically part of the next session.
20 MR. DAVID WAINWRIGHT: Thank
21 you.
22 My name is David Wainwright.
23 W-A-I-N-W-R-I-G-H-T. I am the Director of
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1 Public Safety and Security. It is an
2 administrative position.
3 I have a unique perspective in
4 that three-years-ago when I was hired here, I
5 started out as a paraprofessional and within
6 a month-and-a-half, I became an instructor.
7 And I had the opportunity to go through that
8 process. And then when previous leadership
9 decided to leave, a new leadership was
10 created and I was brought on as part of that
11 team.
12 I have seen a lot of different
13 facets of the job.
14 My background is, I was a
15 police officer for 25 years. Education is
16 relatively new to me. I have only been in
17 education for five years. I retired from
18 police work at the end of 2013. So it has
19 been very eye opening. I thought police work
20 was eye opening. Education is even more eye
21 opening.
22 Like I said, unique
23 perspective. I have been through a bunch of
24 different steps.
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1 Needless to say, our Academy is
2 under the microscope. I'm aware of that.
3 And as a part of the administrative team, I
4 know that I'm partly responsible for that.
5 I'm not here to point fingers.
6 I'm not here to say this person did that or
7 this. I am taking responsibility like I
8 always do.
9 Are we perfect? No. We're
10 not.
11 Have we made mistakes? Yes, we
12 have as had prior administrations before us.
13 But I believe in the mission.
14 Like I said, with my law enforcement
15 background, I know how important it is for
16 young people to have good relationships with
17 people in the public safety field.
18 And it is funny, I had an
19 opportunity to really study our mission, I
20 did not write it, but when I looked at it, I
21 saw that one of our primary goals is to
22 expose young people to the public safety
23 fields. And I think that's important.
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1 times and things that are going on and
2 happening in this region right now, it is
3 important that young people still see this.
4 Like I said earlier, we are
5 under the microscope. One of the problems
6 when you are looking through a microscope,
7 looking through that eyepiece is that you are
8 so focused on one thing, that you don't see
9 anything else that is going on around us.
10 Are our test scores low? Yes.
11 As a matter of fact, they stink. I'm the
12 first person to admit that.
13 But I also want to add that a
14 new test was offered last year as the
15 measuring stick for students in high school.
16 Quite frankly, knowing our student body, I
17 don't think many of them would have chosen to
18 take that test. They have been forced, too.
19 Again, these are things that are out of my
20 control and out of your control. Decisions
21 that are made way above our pay grade. I'm
22 fine with that.
23 What I'm asking, though, is
24 that you give us an opportunity to continue

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1 to move forward. Like I said, we're not
2 perfect. I don't know how else to say it.
3 But when you have ten pounds of crap in a
4 five-pound bag, there is going to be messes.
5 And some messes have to be cleaned up. And
6 we are still in the process of cleaning those
7 messes up, plain and simple.
8 So many great things happened
9 at our school. One thing, the interactions
10 that all of our young people have with the
11 public safety field and the military. Great,
12 great things. Young people are exposed and
13 actually are able to think for themselves for
14 the first time when they come in contact with
15 these people. That's important.
16 Our community service projects.
17 They haven't been recognized. We provide a
18 safe environment for many students. Our
19 school is small. Very small. And a lot of
20 our students come to our school because of
21 that. They feel secure there.
22 Most importantly, we are
23 teaching young people how to be good
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1 And we've experienced a couple of things this
2 year pretty eye opening for anybody.
3 One of our students was
4 murdered this year in the City of Wilmington.
5 What young person should be
6 exposed to that or have to deal with that?
7 Well, guess what? The kids that come to our
8 school, they deal with those questions every
9 day. They deal with the thought process
10 that, Are my mom and dad going to be deported
11 today? Or am I going to eat, or am I going
12 to be hungry over the weekend?
13 And education, as far as I can
14 see, and I am a novice, I've only been in it
15 for five years, but teaching children
16 arithmetic and reading seems to be a little
17 lower in that we provide social services.
18 We're feeding our kids. We're clothing our
19 kids. We're providing them a safe place.
20 We're disciplining our kids. We're giving
21 them parameters to live by.
22 So, again, all I'm asking you
23 to do is look at the big picture. Although
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1 And we plan on improving.
2 I'm just asking, please don't
3 close the school. Thank you.
4 MS. STOUFFER: At this point, I
5 will accept comments from anyone else who
6 desires to speak. Please remember to
7 identify yourself before you begin your
8 comments.
9 MS. JENNIFER CAIN: Hello. My
10 name is Jennifer Cain. I'm a parent of a
11 student. And my son goes to DAPSS. He has
12 been going to DAPSS since ninth grade.
13 He went to Colonial before and
14 my son, he fell through the cracks. Ever
15 since he has gone to DAPSS, my son has
16 excelled. They have identified his problems.
17 He has a couple of IEP classes. And the
18 lowest grade he got was a C in Spanish.
19 I'm afraid to name names
20 because the staff is a small school, but the
21 staff is so oriented on the students. Do you
22 know what I mean? From the cafeteria staff,
23 the secretarial staff, Mr. Sheldon. Just so
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1 I'm going to miss somebody.
2 My son has excelled at this
3 school and I want to see him graduate. I
4 think it is a Godsend. I think a lot of
5 people need that school. I don't know. I'm
6 talking from my heart as a parent. There are
7 a lot of parents out there. My kid would not
8 survive at William Penn. He needs what he
9 gets at DAPSS. Do you know what I mean? It
10 makes a difference. My son gets up every day
11 and wants to go to school. What 18-year-old
12 wants to get up and go to school. I don't
13 know many. Do you know what I mean? He
14 loves his school. He feels a part of the
15 team.
16 I'm so pleased with the
17 education and the service that that school
18 provides my child. I can't ask for anything
19 more. Those teachers go above and beyond
20 what they get paid to do every day. I mean,
21 they really do. They take an interest in
22 every student. They go out of the way on
23 their free time to help their kids.
24 I think that's important. My

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1 son feels like he makes a difference. Like I
2 said, he feels a part of the team. That's
3 all I got.
4 Do you have any questions for
5 me?
6 MS. STOUFFER: We are not
7 permitted to ask questions. I'm sorry.
8 Thank you very much.
9 MS. JOLYNN MANISCALCO: I will
10 spell my name. It is J-O-L-Y-N-N
11 M-A-N-I-S-C-A-L-C-O.
12 Good evening. As I read the
13 letter from our school's former Board of
14 Director's President, I found myself thinking
15 a very familiar cliche, Hell hath no fury
16 like a woman scorned.
17 I was angry, betrayed, and,
18 yes, even a little scared. Then a thought
19 dawned across my mind. While she had made
20 points as to the problem our school faces, it
21 all happened on her watch. It was under her
22 leadership that this happened.
23 So then I began to wonder why.
24 Why was the Delaware School Board putting so

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1 much collateral into a disgruntled former
2 Board Member's opinion?
3 So I decided to present a
4 different perspective, one of a parent, and
5 address her concerns fairly.
6 Yes, our school does not meet
7 the charter numbers as outlined. But I
8 challenge this, in that this is a specialty
9 charter, like no other school in the State.
10 It offers an education for kids who some day
11 will be our future heros.
12 True, not every child who
13 graduates from DAPSS will become a first
14 responder. But every child who graduates
15 will have learned invaluable lessons. And I
16 challenge every adult in this room, we didn't
17 have this knowledge when we graduated.
18 Knowing and understanding the
19 work our fine police officers do every day
20 builds the foundation for a respect of our
21 law enforcement. Something that I think we
22 can all agree is much needed in today's
23 climate.
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1 design a fire safety plan for their
2 household, know the importance of having an
3 emergency plan for their family and know what
4 to do in the event of a fire.
5 And lastly, and as a nurse, one
6 of the biggest advantages that this type of
7 education offers is that every single child
8 will have the ability to save a life.
9 Again, I challenge how many of
10 you could do this when you graduated?
11 Next, I would like to address
12 the lack of education that was mentioned in
13 the original complaint.
14 Yes, teacher turnover was a
15 concern of mine. But I would like to
16 reassure the Board as an involved parent who
17 values education for my child, I have seen no
18 deficiency. The teachers care. They love
19 our kids. And although the Board would like
20 to see the number of students increase, I,
21 once again, challenge, What's wrong with a
22 small school? What is wrong with every
23 teacher knowing every student? What is wrong
24 with every teacher taking an interest in

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1 making sure our kids succeed? What is wrong
2 with a school that lives with everybody is my
3 brother or sister climate?
4 Sure, this school has turnover.
5 But it's because the staff that they looked
6 to recruit have other career fields as well.
7 And sometimes a job making more money comes
8 along. And that is not our kid's fault. It
9 is not our school's fault. It is called
10 life.
11 Many will say the proof is in
12 the numbers. Just look at their standardized
13 testing scores. I have a challenge for that
14 statement as well.
15 First and foremost, my child
16 and no child that attends a school in the
17 State of Delaware is a number. That
18 statement deserves a repeat. No child in
19 this State should ever be treated like a
20 number.
21 Over the years, as I'm sure the
22 Board is aware, standardized test have been
23 proven to be racially biased. DAPSS has an
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1 almost 40 percent of our school lives below
2 the poverty line.
3 So if DAPSS is closed, where
4 does that leave our kids? Back into a public
5 school system where they will be just a
6 number and many fail, give up and drop out.
7 The studies have been done over
8 and over, but, yet, the testing stays the
9 same. And we sit and want to judge a school
10 on a testing program that has been proven
11 biased. We set up the school for failure.
12 So, in my opinion, that argument for why
13 DAPSS should be closed is insufficient.
14 I implore the Board to lower
15 the charter numbers. This school is not for
16 every child.
17 School choice is closed. And
18 this is a senseless hardship that will be
19 placed on parents to try and find suitable
20 schooling for our children. Why put us
21 through that when we have a school we love?
22 Again, I emphasize that this is
23 a unique opportunity for those children who
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1 security. Can the taxpayers of the State
2 afford to keep this school open? How can
3 they not? We are fostering our future heros
4 of this fine State.
5 We need to stop treating kids
6 like a number. We need DAPSS in our
7 community. Our community supports DAPSS and
8 its mission. Our first responders support
9 DAPSS and its mission.
10 Now, our School Board of
11 Delaware needs to support DAPSS and its
12 mission. We are the parents, teachers,
13 family and supporters of our future heros.
14 We are DAPSS.
15 MS. STOUFFER: This is a
16 petition with 45 signatures.
17 MS. JOLYNN MANISCALCO: No. It
18 is over 60 signatures. I have a petition
19 that I started online that has 45 signatures,
20 but I don't know where to send it.
21 Afterwards if I can get --
22 MS. STOUFFER: Yes.
23 MS. KIMBERLY FISHER: My name
24 is Kimberly Fisher. F-I-S-H-E-R.

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1 And I am a parent. I am a
2 parent of a very fine cadet, Destiny Fisher.
3 And Destiny has been with DAPSS ever since
4 she has been in ninth grade. She is now in
5 twelfth grade.
6 Before Destiny came to DAPSS
7 she was a C student, sometimes D's. She had
8 behavioral problems. And we did not know
9 what we were going to do with her. We knew
10 that public school was not the answer.
11 When we found out about DAPSS,
12 and they accepted her for who she was, I saw
13 her blossom. She is now an A/B honor
14 student. As a matter of fact, last marking
15 period, she got straight A's.
16 My daughter has excelled since
17 she has been there. She has integrity. She
18 is not ashamed of who she is. She is a
19 leader where she used to be a follower. She
20 is a leader now. I've never seen that in
21 her. And she has taken up so much that she
22 is wanted by now seven colleges with
23 scholarships because of DAPSS.
24 My daughter has also saved --

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1 helped to save two neighbors' lives, one last
2 year when she was a junior and one just this
3 year recently. She knew what to do. She
4 knew how to respond. She knew what to say to
5 911. And I'm very proud of her. She was not
6 afraid. She had confidence. Confidence she
7 never had before.
8 I think it would be unjust to
9 neglect any child of an opportunity to attend
10 a Charter School like DAPSS that provides
11 public safety, but also makes leaders.
12 MR. DYLAN CAMPESE: My name is
13 Dylan Campese. C-A-M-P-E-S-E.
14 Three-years-ago today, I
15 started my journey at Delaware Academy of
16 Public Safety and Security.
17 Once I first started, I have
18 succeeded mostly. Before I was falling
19 through the cracks, not successful, D's, a
20 couple of C's.
21 Since I've been at DAPSS, they
22 have succeeded and helped me with my career
23 as a future firefighter/EMT. I may not have
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1 succeeded with at least C's and B's, and,
2 hopefully, to continue my career as a future
3 firefighter/EMT.
4 Now, ever since I started, I've
5 been certified in CPR and AED in my freshman
6 year. And I'm proud of that.
7 And in my sophomore year, I
8 have stepped up my game, and I have been part
9 of Tactical Operations Command ever since
10 sophomore year. And I believe that since
11 then, they've helped me so much with
12 succeeding compared to other schools.
13 And with many of the associates
14 that helped us, such as Delaware State Fire
15 School, New Castle County Police Department,
16 they have been a big help with us ever since
17 we started making the school successful for
18 our future responders and future U.S.
19 military soldiers serving our country.
20 And I feel like that DAPSS has
21 been a big sponsor by helping us become what
22 we want in our future. And I would like to
23 continue that journey and be certified in EMT
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1 best. And it would be an honor to help
2 others around my community.
3 And yes, some people may be
4 failing and some people have bad comments
5 about the school. But that is their views.
6 We should not have to listen to bad comments.
7 We should be staying strong in what we
8 believe is in our future career.
9 Some may not be there for
10 future U.S. military soliders or first
11 responders, but they are here for a good
12 education compared to other school districts.
13 They've been there. They go to DAPSS because
14 they believe in a good education.
15 Now, my main concern is the
16 amount of comments that we have been getting
17 about students not liking DAPSS because of
18 that. That does not mean we don't have to
19 stop and close down because of that.
20 I believe that we should step
21 up our game and keep helping people who want
22 to be future first responders and U.S.
23 military, who will help us with a future.
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1 helping us with that. And we would hate to
2 see it fall through the cracks because of,
3 say, people saying rude stuff and have it
4 close because of something like that.
5 And I believe that when I
6 graduate, I would like to thank DAPSS for
7 helping me be certified in EMT, firefighting
8 class, and, hopefully, be a successful
9 firefighter and being able to thank everyone
10 that has helped me since freshman year.
11 And I would like to continue
12 help saving lives for the State of Delaware
13 and continue working and going to school,
14 fire school, hopefully, and going to DelTech
15 and learning criminology and be a successful
16 future firefighter/EMT and, hopefully, be in
17 leadership and part of future firefighters.
18 I would hate to see DAPSS close
19 under the negligence of bad people saying
20 that DAPSS is a bad school. It's not.
21 We thank New Castle County
22 Police for helping us through all of this. I
23 appreciate everyone.
24 MS. CAROLYN MARSH: My name is

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1 Carolyn Marsh. M-A-R-S-H.
2 Good evening. I have a student
3 here. My student came from an all-boy
4 school. He went there for four years.
5 When he got here, he wasn't
6 comfortable with being around girls. He was
7 sort of out of sorts, and he didn't do very
8 well at all. I would always get his report
9 card saying that he was good to have in the
10 classroom, but his efforts were not good and
11 he wasn't doing well and so forth and so on.
12 I would visit the school. And
13 there are teachers here that I know that are
14 very good and were very patient with him,
15 that were very patient with him.
16 So this year, this last marking
17 period, the second marking period, he has
18 gotten A's and B's and one D. So I know
19 they're doing something right.
20 So I'm here to say, I hope that
21 you would keep DAPSS open. Because even
22 though it doesn't seem like he is learning a
23 lot about how to be an EMT and all that, I
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1 lot more than he is saying.
2 That's all I have to say.
3 MS. DESTINY FISHER: Good
4 evening. My name is Destiny Fisher.
5 F-I-S-H-E-R.
6 I would like to express my
7 thoughts and opinions on the school.
8 Being at the school, I have
9 flourished, as my mother has said. I have
10 flourished and gained so much knowledge here
11 at DAPSS. DAPSS is an all around great
12 school with teachers who care and other
13 staffers that care as well.
14 To me, DAPSS is one big family.
15 And if you choose to be part of it, you will
16 have the pleasure of experiencing that same
17 close-knit family.
18 Me being here all four years,
19 we have gone through some obstacles with
20 staff turnover and losing a few very good
21 teachers due to outside of student control.
22 I've had to come to realize
23 that in life there is change and that I am
24 going to have to adapt to it and make the

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1 most of education no matter what.
2 With this philosophy, my DAPSS
3 teachers and I have worked hard, and I'm on
4 my way to college this fall. DAPSS has been
5 through a lot of changes through the past
6 couple of years. And I would be very sad to
7 find out that students were not offered the
8 same educational experience I was given.
9 Please, when making your final
10 decision, you are taking all of the students
11 into consideration.
12 MR. KEITH HARMON: My name is
13 Keith Harmon. H-A-R-M-O-N.
14 Where do I start? I'm a cadet
15 at the Delaware Academy of Public Safety and
16 Security.
17 This school is just amazing.
18 We have things that we need to work on, but
19 what school doesn't have things that they
20 need to work on.
21 Yes. We need to bring up our
22 academic school. And yes, we need to work on
23 behavioral issues, but, yes, that is also on
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1 perspectives, there have been cadets that
2 have come in and made it very difficult for
3 the teachers to teach.
4 When you see these test
5 schools, What is DAPSS doing, or what is
6 DAPSS not doing? It doesn't all just fall on
7 the administrators and the teachers, it falls
8 on the students.
9 And as far as DAPSS closing, I
10 don't think that that would be the smartest
11 thing to do. Because where are we going to
12 go? DAPSS is a very diverse place for all
13 students. We have kids coming from center
14 city, like the north side, west side, and
15 kids that have been traumatically affected in
16 their lives. They come into DAPSS with
17 behavioral problems and academic struggles.
18 Where are you going to send them? To Penn,
19 to Glasgow, Dickinson, schools that are going
20 to degrade us and make us worse than what we
21 already are. DAPSS works on our struggles,
22 and they try to help us make us succeed.
23 Yes, there are other schools in
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1 Hodgson, St. Georges, but how many of the
2 cadets from DAPSS are going to get into these
3 programs.
4 DAPSS is the only school I know
5 that give us EMT and paramedic
6 certifications. They get us out in the
7 public safety field. We have teachers like
8 Mr. Crumpton, who works at Belvedere, and he
9 is always welcoming to says, Hey, come on a
10 ride with me. Let's go out here and let's
11 further your education.
12 Since I have been at DAPSS --
13 I'm not a perfect student at all. I came
14 into DAPSS with behavioral problems, not the
15 worst of the worst, but I came in here with
16 my fair share of problems. And they have
17 changed me. They taught me life skills. I'm
18 not going to get that one on one. I was
19 taught by Mr. Wainwright, Mr. Sheldon, and
20 Ms. Whyte. If I go to Penn, they are not
21 going to sit down with me and say. So Keith.
22 They're not going to do that.
23 This school genuinely cares
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1 future. I feel as though everything that is
2 going on in society right now, we need more
3 young people to look up to public safety and
4 to actually want to be a part of it.
5 DAPSS is, the majority, I would
6 say, African American students. And with
7 everything that is going on, you need young,
8 black men and young black women that want to
9 help their community and not fall into
10 statistics. And DAPSS help.
11 I would hate to see other
12 students -- like my little cousins who are
13 coming up and they're talking to me about
14 wanting to be doctors, and surgeons, and
15 paramedics. Well, you got to go all the way
16 down to Texas for that. That is where the
17 next public safety school is.
18 I would hate to see DAPSS go.
19 Everything that they do is phenomenal. I'm
20 just saying to the Board, or whoever, don't
21 shut DAPSS down. That's not the right
22 decision.
23 Thank you.
24 MS. TRACY TATMAN: My name is

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1 Tracy Tatman. T-A-T-M-A-N.
2 When my daughter first told me
3 -- my daughter is a senior now -- when my
4 daughter first told me that you guys were
5 hosting a meeting to see if the school should
6 be opened or closed, I was kind of taken
7 back. I was thinking you guys would be
8 entertaining the idea of having a permanent
9 building for DAPSS, maybe offering them some
10 grants, some help because this school is
11 beyond amazing.
12 My daughter started out in
13 Glasgow High School. Her first year of high
14 school, she was teased and made fun of
15 because she learned differently. She needed
16 an IEP plan. Glasgow did not have that
17 available. They actually whipped up an IEP
18 plan within 20 minutes. They called me at
19 work in the middle of the day, had me sign a
20 few papers and said, This is what we are
21 going to do for her. She had straight F's
22 down the line because she had to fight her
23 way to class every day for being that
24 different person.
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1 So I went to the District. And
2 I said, I'm pulling my daughter out of this
3 public school. I'm looking for a setting
4 that will accommodate her learning needs.
5 They said, Well, we have
6 medication for that. We can medicate her.
7 We can possibly send her off.
8 I said, No. I got this. This
9 is my only kid. She is learning differently.
10 She has great potential to be something
11 great. I will do my research. Well, I came
12 across DAPSS.
13 I met with a lady named Ms.
14 Hypes.
15 She said, Well, we have a very
16 strict policy to bring your daughter in the
17 school. We are going to interview you a
18 couple of times. We will do some background
19 searches to see why you are pulling her out.
20 What her potential may be. What we can
21 accommodate for her.
22 Well, I said, This is a lot to
23 get into a school. I said, She really needs
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1 teachers that care. She needs to be able to
2 not feel abnormal.
3 So Ms. Hypes, she called me.
4 I said, What is taking so long?
5 I'm going on my second interview with you
6 guys. I've come and met with you guys.
7 And she said, We want to make
8 sure we can accommodate your daughter. At
9 that point, she called me in. She had an IEP
10 plan. She had executed it unbelievably. She
11 had practically all of my daughter's
12 teachers. All of the administrative
13 counselors came up with a detailed IEP plan.
14 She graduates this year from DAPSS.
15 So she not only is involved
16 with the school, she absolutely adores each
17 and every administrator because they take the
18 time out to say, We are not going to throw
19 you out. We're going to work with you. They
20 are training these kids to have integrity,
21 patience, resilience.
22 We rode passed an accident the
23 other day. And she wanted to jump out of the
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1 I said, You are a student. You
2 are not a doctor.
3 She said, Well, part of our
4 values, we have to stop. We have to make
5 sure these people are okay.
6 Okay. I see she is moving, and
7 she is breathing. All right. Make sure
8 somebody calls 911. This was important to
9 her. It didn't matter what we were doing.
10 We stopped, and she needed to make sure these
11 people were okay.
12 From Mr. Sheldon, to Mr.
13 Crumpton, to Ms. Williams, Ms. Kirby, Ms.
14 Whyte, Dr. Thomas, she mentions everyone.
15 Mr. Haye. Mr. Matthews. They all play a
16 part in the discipline and the structure that
17 these kids have. They need this school.
18 Delaware needs this school. This schools
19 needs to be extended well beyond its years.
20 It needs to be a landmark in this State.
21 This school is what is going to
22 make us survive. I only got three minutes
23 left. But I'm telling you, closing it should
24 not be an option.
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1 MS. JANELLY SALAZAR: My name
2 is Janelly Salazar.
3 I'm a student at DAPSS. I just
4 want to say, I've gone to DAPSS since my
5 freshman year. I'm a junior now. The
6 teachers have always been really supportive
7 and willing to help. They always say, If you
8 need extra help, we are willing to stay after
9 school. We are willing to work with you. If
10 I'm having trouble with something, they will
11 pull me aside. If you are having a bad day,
12 they'll pull me aside. We will work with
13 you.
14 I've never been good at
15 English. English is my second language.
16 Spanish is my first. And I've never done
17 good on the Star tests. And recently, we
18 just took it like two-days-ago. And I took
19 it. My teacher was like, Take your time.
20 Don't rush through it. My teacher is Mr.
21 Haye. I went up 250 some points. I went
22 from all watch to being on.
23 DAPSS just gives you a lot of
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1 They have dual enrollment. They have the
2 college fair. They have the military fair
3 where you actually get to ask questions.
4 Take your time. Look at different colleges.
5 Look at the military, National Guard, the
6 Army. It's a school where you feel safe and
7 you don't feel judged by teachers. You don't
8 feel judged by other students.
9 DAPSS -- I'm part of the
10 volleyball and the basketball team. It's
11 just an outlet. The coaches are very
12 supportive. They are always there. They
13 always understand if you're going through
14 something, it's not like you always have to
15 be at your best. I don't know. It just
16 gives you a lot of opportunity.
17 Like my freshman year, we got
18 CPR certified. Each public safety class, you
19 get to do hands-on things. Public Safety I,
20 CPR certified. FEMA certified. ISC
21 certified.
22 Public Safety II, we get to
23 learn how to do car stops. We get to learn
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1 Public Safety III, we're
2 getting ready to go into fire school. I
3 don't know. I feel like DAPSS just gives you
4 an opportunity where you don't get to get
5 judged like you do in other schools. You get
6 to be your own person. You get to do what
7 you like to do.
8 The administration does a great
9 job telling you, just be yourself and we will
10 work with you. You just need to talk to us.
11 So, yes, I feel like DAPSS
12 should not be in this position right now
13 because it's really a good school. And if
14 the test school scores are low, it's not
15 because of the teachers or the staff. It is
16 because of some of the students that do not
17 want to cooperate.
18 That's all. Thank you.
19 MS. BRYNN KNUPP: B-R-Y-N-N
20 K-N-U-P-P.
21 I am the Health and PT teacher
22 at DAPSS. I have been working here two
23 years. And the person that has had the
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1 Dr. Erica Thomas.
2 At DAPSS, I can rely on her for
3 feedback and help on my lesson plans. She
4 pays attention to the needs of the staff
5 providing us with professional elements that
6 close gaps.
7 I have learned a lot from David
8 Wainwright as well and how to deal with
9 behavioral concerns when they arise, and he
10 is always quick to respond to my needs.
11 This may not be the longest of
12 comments. But I sincerely mean every word.
13 I believe this school offers a
14 lot to many people. There are many flaws in
15 our system. We have a tough group of
16 students. And we are held to high
17 expectations by our curriculum leader as we
18 should be.
19 The fix is not to shut down a
20 school full of high needs kids and invested
21 teachers. It's to provide funding, time and
22 support to the students and staff in order
23 for us to reach our full potential.
24 Thank you.
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1 MS. CHRISTINA ADAMS: My name
2 is Christina Adams. I came to DAPSS my
3 sophomore year. I came in from Arizona.
4 Their education system is behind.
5 At first I didn't want to go,
6 and my mom was looking at me. So I went, and
7 it wasn't half as bad. The school was small.
8 They were welcoming to me.
9 Never once in my school years
10 did I have a 3.7 GPA. It's my senior year.
11 I made Honor Roll both marking periods. The
12 teachers -- every single teacher in the
13 school, they all look out for me and ask me
14 how my day is going every day.
15 Sometimes I go through a lot
16 and break down in the school, and there is
17 always a teacher that has my back and will
18 talk to me one on one and give me the
19 guidance I need to continue on through my
20 day.
21 I never thought about entering
22 into the military. So when I first took the
23 ASVAB test, I was like, What is this? What
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1 guess, my grades were good. I didn't think
2 about the military. I talked to my teachers
3 about it -- like the plans I wanted to do for
4 my future. And, to me, I thought it was a
5 good idea to take it to the next level.
6 So I thought about it, and I
7 heard about the National Guard. And I
8 thought it would be a good opportunity to be
9 well rounded because I wanted to be an F.B.I.
10 agent. Perfect idea.
11 So I joined the Army National
12 Guard. And if it wasn't for DAPSS, I
13 probably would not have joined. I took the
14 ASVAB. Got a high grade.
15 And I just think if it wasn't
16 for DAPSS, I would not have made it through
17 my high school years.
18 MR. RODNEY BURRUSS: Hello. My
19 name is Rodney Burruss. I am currently the
20 head coach, head lacrosse coach at Delaware
21 Academy of Public Safety and Security.
22 I was actually introduced to
23 this school by Mr. Paul Delle Donne. And I
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1 This school saves kids. It
2 really does. Since I've been here, I've been
3 here for three years coaching. And I've had
4 parents that I know out in the public that
5 have had kids, one was from A.I., one was
6 from Brandywine and one was from Mount
7 Pleasant, they were having trouble with their
8 kids in those schools. I recommended those
9 kids to come to DAPSS, and DAPSS has changed
10 their lives.
11 It has changed their lives to
12 where they are holding 3.0 GPA's and they are
13 on course to graduate.
14 I'm a full-time employee at
15 Christiana Care Health Services. And at
16 times, when I go through the ER, I see DAPSS
17 students there representing their school with
18 the EMTs. And that makes me feel proud to be
19 a representative of DAPSS.
20 It would be a tragedy to close
21 this school. This school is helping these
22 kids and they are saving lives. And they are
23 saving kids out on the streets. They are
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1 I have been told numerous times
2 by the parents that I recommended their kids,
3 thank you so much for recommending DAPSS. It
4 is small environment. Some kids need that.
5 They don't need these big schools where they
6 get lost. They have teachers here that care
7 about them. They have staff here that cares
8 about them.
9 I speak to the administration
10 every day. And I'm close to them now. I
11 feel like I'm very close to them. I speak to
12 Mr. Sheldon often. And we sit down, and we
13 talk about what we can do to enhance DAPSS to
14 get the kids that are not in DAPSS in DAPSS.
15 We recently had a full coaches
16 meeting, the other coaches to go out in the
17 street and, basically, publicly get kids to
18 enroll in DAPSS, look into it because DAPSS
19 teaches things that these other schools are
20 not teaching.
21 And like I said, to be an EMT
22 to be a firefighter and a policeman, we need
23 that in society today. We do. If you look
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1 needed. It's needed.
2 I just wanted to speak today
3 and encourage you not to close this school.
4 Not to close this school.
5 Thank you.
6 MS. KAREN PATTERSON: Good
7 evening. I'm Karen Patterson.
8 P-A-T-T-E-R-S-O-N.
9 So I'm coming at this twofold.
10 It's breaking my heart to have to sit here
11 because I really never thought we would get
12 to a point where DAPSS would be in this
13 situation.
14 Before I start, Mrs. Fisher, I
15 know you're back here, I always knew Destiny
16 was going to be a superstar. To see her
17 tonight, I'm proud of you, Destiny.
18 I know I'm not going to leave
19 this desk with any applause, because,
20 unfortunately, on every good side, there is a
21 bad side as well.
22 And I'm a minority and I'm okay
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1 shown by these parents. Unfortunately, I
2 think it's too late.
3 These students have been my
4 family for a long time.
5 And what I say tonight will
6 never change how I feel about each and every
7 one of them.
8 However, putting my personal
9 feelings aside, I'm here tonight as a
10 community member who has tried to understand
11 why a failing Charter School has been left
12 open for so long.
13 And when does all of the
14 excuses that DAPSS has end?
15 See, tonight is about a school
16 that is failing to educate students. Excuses
17 like we draw students who need extra
18 services, and that is why their scores are
19 reflective of what they do is just a cop out.
20 Their scores reflect the fact
21 that they are not being educated and the
22 administration is not giving them what they
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1 three-years-ago, I was sitting right there
2 where Dr. Thomas was in her position. And I
3 failed them as an administrator. I failed
4 them as a teacher. And I live with that
5 every single day. I can't get over that. It
6 is in the past, but I failed them. And the
7 school has not improved since then.
8 We are no different than
9 Pencader or Penn. They are facing the same
10 challenges. And, unfortunately, there are
11 some challenges you can't get over.
12 Students who come to a Charter
13 School who don't believe in the mission have
14 set it up for failure. That has been
15 relevant since probably year two of DAPSS.
16 DAPSS was a great concept once
17 upon a time, but those days are gone.
18 To put it in terms that a
19 Charter School would understand, you can't
20 put a Band-Aid on a cut that needs stitches.
21 You can't.
22 And the DOE has given them
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1 there have and they haven't.
2 So as much as I love DAPSS and
3 working at DAPSS and being an employee, it is
4 time for the DOE to put this to an end and
5 let these kids go to a school where they will
6 get an education.
7 MS. TARA WILLIAMS: My name is
8 Tara Williams, and I'm the office manager at
9 DAPSS. My last name is spelled
10 W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S.
11 I've been with DAPSS for a
12 year-and-a-half. When I came to DAPSS, most
13 of the staff that is with DAPSS now,
14 apparently, all of us are new.
15 What is going on is that we are
16 cleaning up what was already there. So we
17 should be allowed the opportunity to do that.
18 I'm the person who deals with
19 enrollment. I'm the person who sees the back
20 end of everything. So I can speak about what
21 I see and what all I have to be a part of to
22 clean up.
23 We, at DAPSS, the staff, we
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1 other. We do things as a family. We don't
2 consider ourselves as just teachers. That is
3 my teacher. Oh, that is a student. We treat
4 each other like we're a family, a close-knit
5 family.
6 So with that being said, there
7 is no animosity. People will have their
8 opinions. They are entitled to those.
9 The thing is, if you don't have
10 a resolution to the problem, then why speak
11 on it. If you can't help solve it, then why
12 even speak on it. Let the ones that are
13 willing to step forward that are willing to
14 take the tasks at hand and take the bull by
15 the horn, let's run this race with patience,
16 with strength, because we are determined.
17 We're going to win this race. We're going to
18 win. I don't care if I don't get no sleep at
19 night. I'm willing to sit there behind that
20 desk and do what I need to do to make this
21 school be ran right.
22 I love these students. I love
23 the staff. I love the parents. There is no
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1 give us a chance, I beg you. This is our
2 first year. Let us show you the difference
3 that we can make.
4 That's all. Thank you so much.
5 MR. NAJAQUAN HOPKINS: My name
6 is Najaquan, N-A-J-A-Q-U-A-N, Hopkins,
7 H-O-P-K-I-N-S.
8 My ninth grade year, I did
9 okay. Tenth grade year, I started slacking.
10 My eleventh grade year, I just stopped caring
11 like all together.
12 And I went to another school
13 before -- DAPSS, was my first year. And I
14 had to transfer somewhere because my grades
15 were like below what they needed to be. And
16 it wasn't just me in that school that had low
17 grades and everything.
18 But when I came to DAPSS, it
19 was different. Because I had like teachers
20 that cared. I know most all of the teachers'
21 names and they know my name, too. I walk
22 down the hallway. Even if I don't have them
23 in that class, they still speak regardless.
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1 like having a formal review, it was like I
2 didn't understand why we needed a formal
3 review. If I would have transferred to Penn
4 or Mount Pleasant, I would have went from
5 failing to failing even more.
6 So when I came to DAPSS my
7 grades started going up. Mrs. Tomack helped
8 me with getting into college. I applied to
9 one college and I got in. I applied to
10 another college and I'm still waiting to hear
11 back.
12 And if I was still where I was,
13 I probably wouldn't be in school, to be
14 honest. I probably would end up not caring
15 all together.
16 Even going to Ms. Whyte's room
17 -- and sometimes Mr. Crumpton helps me with
18 different things, continuing on to like being
19 certified and everything in different things.
20 Mr. Matthews -- I came in there and he would
21 tell me to listen, not just take away what I
22 want to hear, but listen to everything.
23 So I don't think DAPSS needs to
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1 MS. EARTHA HOPKINS: Hello.
2 I'm Eartha Hopkins. I'm Najaquan's mom. As
3 you can see, that's my son. I'm handing him
4 my pocketbook.
5 Like he said, this is his first
6 year at DAPSS. I heard a lot of good things.
7 And I heard some things that aren't so good.
8 And I'm sorry that your time at DAPSS was not
9 what you wanted it to be.
10 MS. KAREN PATTERSON: The four
11 years I was there was a blessing.
12 MS. EARTHA HOPKINS: Okay.
13 MS. KAREN PATTERSON: But it's
14 not anymore.
15 MS. EARTHA HOPKINS: And I'm
16 sorry that it isn't. But for us, it has been
17 a lifeline.
18 I have met so many wonderful
19 teachers and the staff at DAPSS and the
20 office. I walk in. They know who I am.
21 They've taught me to say cadet, which is
22 something I'm not used to. I went to the
23 parents' night. I attended all of his
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1 building, Mr. Matthews was the last person I
2 saw, he said, What do you think? I said, Can
3 I enroll?
4 When I visited his classroom
5 and I got the syllabus, I was engaging in the
6 classroom with teachers and I was doing some
7 algebra. I haven't done algebra in how many
8 years.
9 And his being at DAPSS, I have
10 seen him grow. Even his guidance counselor
11 at his former school, they recommended DAPSS.
12 He lost all interest. I look at these
13 students in here tonight with their jackets
14 and their fleece on and they have the DAPSS
15 emblem.
16 Do you know in the City of
17 Wilmington what this means? They're walking
18 around with an emblem on their heart.
19 These students go to a school
20 that offers them the opportunity to be out
21 here serving the public and to be police
22 officers.
23 My child was asked, Are you a
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1 But I can see the looks on
2 peoples' faces in the City of Wilmington when
3 they look at him. I'm like, Oh, my God,
4 please. We have to get home safely. Because
5 see, other than that, you might be reading
6 about me in the paper trying to defend my son
7 from somebody trying to take his life.
8 Because DAPSS offers him the opportunity to
9 stand for what is right. That's right.
10 DAPSS stands for what is right.
11 They go to these public
12 schools. They go to the vocational schools.
13 And there is so much going on. I'm not
14 saying I know everything that happens at
15 DAPSS. When he comes home, I hear this
16 teacher's name and that teacher's name. And
17 I hear good things about DAPSS, as well as
18 the struggles.
19 But the thing of it is, he
20 keeps going. He keeps trying to make his
21 mark in the world and DAPSS affords him that
22 opportunity. And I would not change it for
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1 was in. He totally lost all interest. At
2 DAPSS, I see he is re-energized.
3 Like I said, he comes home. He
4 talks about college. I sat there. This is
5 my child. He's not dumb. He's not dumb.
6 He's smart. But he lost all interest in
7 going to school. And I'm thankful that he is
8 at DAPSS. I'm thankful DAPSS is still there.
9 DAPSS needs to be given another chance. If
10 anyone has ever seen the movie, Lean On Me
11 and the other one, these were schools that
12 were struggling. Students that were
13 struggling. We need to do whatever we need
14 to do. He's supposed to graduate. And guess
15 what, if I have to come back when he is gone
16 to help that school succeed, I'm all about
17 it. I'm all about it.
18 I work for the State of
19 Delaware in the Division of Prevention
20 Behavioral Health that deals with children.
21 I'm not a clinician. I'm not a therapist.
22 I'm an administrator.
23 But at the same time, this is
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1 -- what some of them need is another chance
2 -- and hope that somebody will take interest
3 in them.
4 At DAPSS, how can we even think
5 about closing the doors. We need to find
6 what the solution is. We need to find a
7 solution to help the children, even if they
8 have to come in on the weekends and study,
9 this is what needs to be done. We don't say
10 no.
11 Even people out there on
12 substance abuse that have addictions, are you
13 telling me we are going to put all this money
14 to figure out the opiate crisis and we're not
15 doing anything for education for these
16 children. The priorities are backwards.
17 I don't want to see anybody
18 else die from having a substance abuse issue
19 or struggling. But neither do I want to see
20 this school close because it's struggling.
21 We need to keep trying and
22 figure out what's wrong. If it is funding,
23 or whatever, we need to be able to do that we
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1 close down.
2 MR. JORDAN ANGEL: Hello. I'm
3 Jordan Angel. J-O-R-D-A-N A-N-G-E-L.
4 I'm a former student of the
6 Security. I graduated in 2017.
7 Like I said, my name is Jordan
8 Angel. I'm a Delaware and nationally
9 licensed EMT, a firefighter and an alumnus of
10 the DAPSS.
11 I was introduced to DAPSS
12 against my will. My parents sent me. I
13 wanted nothing to do with it. I had no
14 interest in public safety.
15 But over time, it really grew
16 on me. The big picture kind of set in. The
17 administrators and staff members went to
18 great lengths for their cadets. Cadets could
19 feel almost at home around any staff member.
20 I joined the Tactical
21 Operations Command Unit, TacOps,
22 pseudo-military, sort of like JROTC, more
23 focused on leadership and service, my
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1 upon hundreds of community service hours over
2 my entire time at DAPSS.
3 My sophomore year, I joined the
4 Christiana Fire Company. I remained active
5 in CFC, as well as TacOps during the duration
6 of my high school career. I held various
7 positions and offices within DAPSS committees
8 and TacOps. I was often one of the cadets
9 often selected to represents DAPSS.
10 Let me start, a school that
11 focuses on public safety careers is the best
12 concept imaginable. And I truly believe this
13 to my core. A school that prepares students
14 for the real world by giving them a
15 well-rounded education, public safety
16 knowledge and certifications, experience in a
17 multitude of skills, in partnerships with
18 local public safety entities. I firmly
19 believe this to be true. It directly goes
20 back to the community it pulls from and
21 instills selfless service in young hopeful
22 graduates.
23 DAPSS has severely strayed from
24 this.
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1 In my senior year, I became
2 acutely aware of it. Since 2011, the
3 school's inception, the school has gone
4 through eighty'ish staff members,
5 approximately 20 of those were last year,
6 coincidently new administration.
7 School year 2016/2017, two of
8 these were terminations. The rest were
9 resignations due to working conditions put
10 into place by the new administration. That
11 family feeling disappeared among cadets and
12 chief administrators, as well as staff
13 members in general.
14 Teachers dropped like flies.
15 The care that was so pervasive between
16 instructors and cadets was replaced by
17 evident resentment for administration.
18 Often teachers wouldn't be
19 hired for months, and we would have
20 substitutes. No education was going on,
21 really.
22 Cadets concerns for their own
23 education fell on deaf ears, as
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1 Education fell by the wayside.
2 Students were kind of pushed out to graduate.
3 Core values were watered down. The public
4 safety connection and relationships were
5 eroded. Cadets became disenfranchised. This
6 remains true today -- many of the ones that I
7 stay in contact with even though they are not
8 here to speak.
9 Any more, DAPSS has become the
10 joke among public safety personnel. Nobody
11 has really hit on that yet. Every one that I
12 have spoken to in public safety kind of just
13 agrees that it is not really great any more.
14 We used to have plenty of
15 junior firemen and EMTs helping out the
16 community. This was in 2015. We lined up
17 along the side of Route 13 for a funeral
18 actually, unfortunately, Firefighter
19 "Hernicky." (Phonetic.) We were extensive.
20 (Indicating.)
21 This is 2017 in the public
22 safety communities. (Indicating.)
23 What I would like to see from
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1 what it deserves.
2 The concept needs to be nixed
3 currently. To preserve the idea is
4 essential. What is going on right now is
5 destroying relationships faster than it can
6 build them.
7 If someone in the future would
8 like to reinvent this idea with more
9 resources at their hands, that would be
10 wonderful and I will be the first one behind
11 it.
12 But as it goes now, I think
13 restarting would be easier, if anything.
14 Thank you for my opportunity to
15 speak tonight. Thank you for listening. If
16 you would like a copy of this.
17 MS. CAITLYN CUTTER: My name is
18 Caitlyn Cutter. C-U-T-T-E-R. I graduated
19 from DAPSS in 2017. I went there all four
20 years.
21 As Jordan before me did speak
22 about TacOps a little bit, I was a member all
23 four years in my high school career. I did
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1 which everybody seems to think is the turning
2 point of DAPSS, which not many people have
3 touched on. It was not the students not
4 willing to learn. It was not the teachers
5 not wanting to teach. It's the
6 administration's responsibility to make sure
7 that these are being done. The only
8 administrator to take responsibility for
9 their actions has been David Wainwright.
10 Both of those two back there
11 need to take responsibility for what they've
12 done. (Indicating.)
13 A personal tidbit from my
14 senior year. I was struggling in one of my
15 courses due to unfair treatment after leaving
16 the TacOps Program. I had brought my
17 concerns to the administration multiple times
18 all of which had been ignored.
19 The biggest concern that I had,
20 and I brought to the administration was in my
21 dual enrollment course with Wilmington
22 University, I was given my midterm answers.
23 I brought it to the administration, and I was
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1 answers.
2 All of these parents are saying
3 that their kids are succeeding, it is because
4 the answers are given.
5 MS. STOUFFER: Excuse me,
6 Ladies and Gentlemen. Everybody has an
7 opportunity to speak. Everyone has an
8 opportunity to speak. Thank you.
9 MS. CAITLYN CUTTER: The
10 answers have been given to the students
11 multiple times on multiple occasions.
12 I, being in TacOps, had the
13 opportunity to be the model student for
14 DAPSS. I put my time, and my weekends, my
15 nights into building a reputation for DAPSS
16 in the public safety community with the
17 military, et cetera, which have been torn.
18 So it affects me personally
19 because that was my time that I put into the
20 school. That has been torn by all of these
21 students that you see behind me.
22 The public safety community
23 does take this school as a joke.
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1 going to fire school to complete part of our
2 curriculum in Public Safety III because of
3 the reputation that the school holds and
4 because of how the students act. There is no
5 discipline in that school.
6 And the only thing that you
7 guys seem to be seeing is what the parents
8 are telling you. Just because I go home to
9 my mother and tell her I had a great day at
10 school does not mean that I had a great day
11 at school. Just because I tell her I'm doing
12 good in school and I'm learning does not mean
13 I'm learning in school.
14 Light needs to be shed and the
15 administration needs to take responsibility
16 for their actions.
17 Thank you.
18 MS. SANDRA HYPES: Sandy Hypes.
19 H-Y-P-E-S.
20 The reason why I have my back
21 to the DOE -- first of all, let me explain
22 who I am.
23 My name is Sandy Hypes. I was
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1 to hear what was going on.
2 I've been following closely
3 with DAPSS from the time I left.
4 See, I started at DAPSS when it
5 first opened.
6 I came from public safety. I
7 worked as a senior instructor for the
8 Delaware State Fire School and a paramedic
9 educator for the Office of EMS.
10 I signed onto DAPSS from the
11 day it opened. I helped write their Public
12 Safety Curriculum. And helped these young
13 men and women become very successful.
14 I love the concept of DAPSS.
15 There is not another Charter School in this
16 State that does what DAPSS does. It directly
17 affects our community.
18 About two-years-ago, I stood
19 here in front of the DOE, just as you all are
20 today, fighting for this school.
21 I believed in this school. And
22 they put me in charge of it kicking and
23 screaming because I came from an
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1 to do was do administration again because I
2 know the heartaches that goes along with it.
3 But because I loved the school,
4 I signed on. And I tried to make a
5 difference. But the reason why I have my
6 back to these guys is because these guys
7 failed you. They failed you because they did
8 not get you the funding that you needed to
9 make a successful school. Actually, they
10 took it away from you.
11 You cannot make a successful
12 school without funding. But parents, you
13 have to be vocal. You cannot just wait until
14 they want to close you down. This is every
15 day.
16 Students, you have to fight for
17 what you believe in.
18 I stood here begging to keep
19 the school open for one reason and one reason
20 only. My second year at DAPSS, I lost my
21 husband. I'm raising two young children.
22 And my students at DAPSS kept me going
23 because I did not want to get out of bed.
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1 day because I was able to keep going that I
2 would fight for them. And even though my
3 views and the views of the Board of Directors
4 of this school do not mix, and there is a
5 reason why I'm not currently in that
6 position, I still believe in this school.
7 And I still believe the DOE
8 will give you the opportunity to keep it
9 open. You have to be vocal. You cannot
10 allow the school to fail your children. You
11 must stay on them because data means
12 everything in the eyes of the Department of
13 Education.
14 If those test scores do not
15 come up, the decision is going to be made for
16 you. Plain and simple.
17 If you don't allow the people
18 that have -- and I am sorry I don't know you
19 because you came on after me -- if you don't
20 allow the people that have the background in
21 education to make these decisions to lead
22 your children and support them, the school is
23 going to be shut down. In fact, the decision
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1 be a futile attempt.
2 But the reality is, if it is
3 worth it, then keep fighting for it. And
4 don't stop yelling until every single child
5 in your school is heard, until every story is
6 told because DAPSS does so much for these
7 children than just what those test scores
8 show.
9 And economically,
10 unfortunately, it is what it is. Go to those
11 Board Meetings, pay attention to what's going
12 on, ask the questions so that your school can
13 serve your children and that we can produce
14 beautiful, wonderful children in this
15 community.
16 Thank you.
17 MS. INDIA COLON: My name is
18 India like the country. Colon. C-O-L-O-N.
19 I want to address the Board
20 because I know you will take this to the rest
21 of the team.
22 I'm actually here today as a
23 public service person. I'm actually in the
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1 is Steve Maniscalco. I serve in the Air
2 Force. I've been in over 20 years.
3 I've seen waves and waves of
4 students from DAPSS come through the Delaware
5 National Guard in many capacities. And I
6 recall standing June 2015 when you were there
7 for the first graduating class. I saw so
8 many students come through. And it was a
9 proud moment just being a public servant just
10 like Maniscalco and everybody. His son is in
11 this school. And it's really moving to see
12 him in that uniform because individuals like
13 myself never got the opportunity from where I
14 grew up. I grew up on the west side of
15 Wilmington. I never got the opportunity. I
16 had to fight my way through it.
17 As I look through this room and
18 see all of these students, I feel like I'm
19 speaking on behalf of them 30-years-ago when
20 I was in that position because this was not
21 something that was afforded to me.
22 And I'm sure there are many
23 cases where people think the school should be
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1 class of June 2015, the first graduating
2 class of DAPSS, 85 percent of those students
3 were awarded university and college
4 scholarships, 1.5 million. I know it because
5 it's a fact. It's under the Department of
6 Education. It's on their website. Those
7 students, 85 percent of those graduating
8 students have since gone on to universities
9 and colleges. A lot of them serve with
10 Maniscalco and myself today. There is an
11 Army guard, young lady right there. Thank
12 you.
13 So that does not come with
14 people being given answers at all costs
15 because those individuals would not have
16 succeeded where they are today if they were
17 simply given answers. That's a fact. Those
18 things are not. That's an elite opportunity
19 to be able to serve your country whether it's
20 as a firefighter, or public servant, police
21 officer, EMT in any capacity.
22 So what people fail to realize
23 is that the interim director, or the Board
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1 interim. I've worked with her for years.
2 I've seen her track record in the Charter
3 School that she holds today. If many of you
4 don't know, she is the dean -- the Chair of
5 Aspira Academy. They're thriving. She just
6 came into this opportunity of being part of
7 DAPSS.
8 And I'm strongly urging the
9 Board today to give her the same opportunity.
10 Lower the enrollment numbers. Give her the
11 opportunity with the success rate that she
12 has. It's pretty obvious that the leadership
13 has failed significantly.
14 I believe in the Department of
15 Education and the State system. I have a
16 hard time believing that you guys don't have
17 a strategic plan in place with Margie being
18 interimly appointed to take this school,
19 lower the numbers, fill it to its capacity
20 and see it go on to the next level and a
21 strategy plan. She has every capacity to do
22 that.
23 I wish she was here to hear
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1 with a majority minority school, dual
2 language at that.
3 So imagine what she can do with
4 a school that has students who are already
5 underprivileged coming from 70 percent
6 minority schools or minority population with
7 40 percent poverty rate. She can do that.
8 She has already done it. She has done it.
9 So if these parents and these
10 students don't know Ms. Margie, I urge them
11 to get to know her. She is the one to take
12 it into the next wave of success.
13 And answers are not given
14 because the majority of those 85 percent of
15 graduating students, they did make it and
16 they made it in public service. They made it
17 in the military and we are not giving those
18 answers.
19 So as a community person, I
20 don't have a student here, but I have a lot
21 of connections with students that have
22 graduated and have served with me and are
23 next to me. I'm proud of what DAPSS has done
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1 And I think you were at St.
2 Paul's before, Ms. Patterson.
3 Is that right?
4 MS. KAREN PATTERSON: I was.
5 MS. INDIA COLON: And that
6 school was shut down, too, if that is a
7 reflection of anything.
8 That's all I have to say.
9 MR. WILLIAM PATRICK: William
10 Patrick. P-A-T-R-I-C-K.
11 I'm William Patrick. I'm a
12 current Board Member at DAPSS. I've been in
13 public safety for almost 40 years now.
14 I've served as the fire chief
15 in the City of Wilmington. I served with the
16 fire department in Wilmington for 32 years.
17 My last few years, I served as the fire
18 marshal. And then I was elevated to the fire
19 chief.
20 I've heard some comments about
21 the impact of public safety careers for young
22 people.
23 I'm from the City of
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1 had any inclination of being a firefighter.
2 It fell into my lap.
3 But just let me say that just
4 looking at how a young person goes into the
5 career of fire service -- let's look at the
6 County, what happens out in New Castle
7 County.
8 A young person, they want to be
9 a firefighter. They joined their volunteer
10 fire department. They become a junior. And
11 then somewhere along the line, they become a
12 full firefighter. It does not happen in the
13 City of Wilmington. We don't have a
14 volunteer fire department. It's a career
15 fire department. It's all paid.
16 So if a young person wants to
17 make it, when I was 18, if I wanted to
18 explore a career in public safety, those
19 opportunities weren't there for me.
20 Fast forward a few years later.
21 I'm now the chief of the department.
22 One of the things -- well, I
23 was chief of the department. So one of the
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1 that really became evident to me was, we
2 needed an opportunity for our young people in
3 the City of Wilmington, and I'm going to talk
4 about Wilmington, we had to provide those
5 opportunities to our kids.
6 One of the things that I did
7 was, I started an explore program. That was
8 the first level. And then this school came
9 about, DAPSS. And I said, Wow. Why don't we
10 funnel our kids from our explore program to
11 DAPSS.
12 So now, we had young people who
13 were being exposed to fire service at a young
14 age, at 15, at 15 being exposed to a career
15 in a fire service. That's what I know. Law
16 enforcement. EMS. Awesome. I experienced
17 it with the fire service.
18 The other thing I did was, I
19 lowered the hiring age to 18. So young
20 people can graduate from DAPSS and get hired
21 in a career in the fire service.
22 Now, why is that so important?
23 Law enforcement, you've got to be 21. And
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1 people to be able to explore careers in the
2 fire service.
3 I, too, was in the Air National
4 Guard. I served 23 years with Air National
5 Guard.
6 One of the things that is so
7 important to me is, DAPSS has provided so
8 much opportunity for our young people.
9 I look at the young man who
10 spoke, and he spoke so eloquently about his
11 experiences at DAPSS. To me, DAPSS has
12 provided such an opportunity for our young
13 people.
14 And being from the City of
15 Wilmington, seeing so many young people who
16 are looking with their uniforms on who are
17 learning not only about careers and about
18 fire service careers, but they are learning
19 discipline. They are learning leadership.
20 They are learning about how to be role models
21 in the community. You cannot take that away.
22 You can't take it away. It's so important.
23 Because life skills are so
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1 understand time, if our kids are not being
2 afforded an opportunity, what are they going
3 to do? Really, what are they going to do?
4 So, anyway, thank you so much.
5 MS. ROSLYN WILSON: Hello. My
6 name is Roslyn Wilson. W-I-L-S-O-N. I
7 really did not come here to speak.
8 Like most of these people, I
9 don't really have the history that they have.
10 But my granddaughter is attending DAPSS for
11 her first year.
12 And I never really understood
13 what was going on or what happened in 2015 or
14 2014, or whenever. All I know is what is
15 going on now.
16 And to be short, I love the
17 concept of DAPSS. I tried to get my
18 granddaughter into all of the other vo-tech
19 schools in Delaware with no success because
20 they don't allow but so many kids to get in.
21 I'm hearing the bickering from
22 the past versus what is going on now.
23 I ask you to give these people
24 the administrators, the teachers, the

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1 parents, the opportunity for their kids and
2 my kids to have the same opportunity as
3 others have had.
4 Thank you.
5 MR. BOMANI CRUMPTON: My name
6 is Bomani Crumpton. B-O-M-A-N-I
7 C-R-U-M-P-T-O-N. I'm the Public Safety III
8 and IV Instructor here at DAPSS.
9 This is my first year. But
10 I've heard a lot of comments today. And I
11 have to say something.
12 And I think something that
13 struck me the most was somebody said, It's
14 over. Time is up or whatever. Whatever was
15 said. It's not too late.
16 It's crazy. Because I was one
17 of these students a couple of years ago. I'm
18 the youngest employee at DAPSS. I'm only
19 24-years-old. But I've had almost eight
20 years of fire EMT service under my belt.
21 And I trained Ms. Fisher. I
22 had Keith. I've had all of these kids in my
23 room. And I talked to them one on one.
24 Like, this is my mom as well.

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1 Because I know that if he acts up, I can give
2 her a phone call and he'll get back in check.
3 And I know that.
4 And it's crazy. This is such a
5 model school that we can go out to different
6 parts of this country and model a school and
7 build a foundation that is so strong that
8 people will be coming here to look at what we
9 do.
10 And I've worked in the City of
11 Wilmington with Chief Patrick. I worked in
12 the County. What happens when you call 911
13 and nobody picks up or nobody comes. Because
14 as crazy as it sounds, in this volunteer
15 world, in this county world, there is a
16 chance that somebody may not come. So this
17 right here is our future. Literally. This
18 is our future.
19 I've had my students help me
20 saves person's lives. I had them where
21 people have had strokes and they saved them
22 -- these kids helped save lives.
23 We can't stop now. You can't
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1 are we going to stop on these kids?
2 For those of you who have had
3 bad experiences, I apologize. But I can tell
4 you now, none of my kids are getting an
5 answer to a test. Because I want to make
6 sure when I call 911, I want them to save my
7 life.
8 We don't have a great
9 relationship. And me coming on this year,
10 I've had to rebuild a lot of relationships
11 where our students go to the hospital and do
12 clinical rotations. They ride with me on the
13 ambulance. I'm not that, I used to do this
14 20-years-ago and I don't do it any more. I
15 still do it. That fire truck, I drove it. I
16 drove it.
17 Kids are in real live
18 situations. Drugs kill people. There are
19 things that I'm not proud of. I got my life
20 back on track and I did the right thing.
21 This right here is what saved my life.
22 You have EMT certification
23 because of DAPSS. Am I correct? So why are
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2 I'll tell you. I love the
3 kids. Kids love me. I hope so. I used to
4 work eight days a month. Now, I have to come
5 in 20 days a month, and I hate it. But I do
6 it. I love the kids and teaching them. I
7 don't come to work wanting somebody to thank
8 me for saving their life. If you say thank
9 you, I appreciate it. If not, I keep it
10 moving.
11 Same thing with these kids.
12 They are walking out with EMT certifications.
13 Destiny has one. I had another student who
14 saved somebody's life last week, and he is
15 getting recognized February 27th.
16 These are my kids. This is my
17 family. And I expect to see you all next
18 year.
19 MR. XAVIER MCCLEMENTS: My name
20 is Xavier McClements. X-A-V-I-E-R
21 M-C-C-L-E-M-E-N-T-S.
22 Hearing the things about this
23 school saying they should get closed and they
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1 heart because where I'm at right now, I'm a
2 volunteer firefighter now. I would have
3 never came to this school and I would have
4 never went down that road to become a
5 firefighter.
6 Before I came to DAPSS, I was
7 getting bad grades in school. I didn't care
8 at all. But when I came to this school, I
9 started getting good grades. I was getting
10 A's and B's. I'm a sophomore now. Second
11 marking period, I passed with A's and B's.
12 I do my best in this school
13 because I know the teachers are respectful
14 and they help us as much as they can. There
15 is discipline. They treat us with respect.
16 And there is not one person in this school
17 that gets disrespected by any of these
18 administrations and teachers.
19 So I don't think this school
20 should get shut down. I think it should have
21 another chance.
22 And that's all I have to say.
23 Thank you.
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1 Rosin Cody. R-O-S-I-N. C-O-D-Y.
2 My name is Cody. I went to
3 DAPSS. I was there from day one. I was part
4 of first graduating class. I was there
5 before they were even at the new building.
6 We had struggles. Our backs
7 were against the wall from day one. A lot of
8 people said we weren't going to make it past
9 my third year, or we were going to be
10 struggling to stay open. I might not
11 graduate.
12 Now they are going on seven
13 years. That was four-years-ago that we were
14 supposed to shut down.
15 And all we did was, we stayed
16 strong. We did our work. We did what we had
17 to do. We had a different administration.
18 Everyone that I worked with at
19 DAPSS, they never gave up on me. Two of the
20 best teachers I had, Ms. Hypes and Ms.
21 Patterson. I still talk to her. She is
22 family. She helped me through stuff with
23 another instructor that thankfully was
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1 she helped me through a lot. That's what
2 some kids need.
3 Now, Mr. Matthews, he helped a
4 lot of kids that may not have the help at
5 home. A good friend of mine, he lives in
6 Wilmington. He does not come from the best
7 part of town. He comes to DAPSS. He's a
8 smart kid. They really care for people here.
9 Like Ms. Hypes said, you have
10 to fight what you believe in, and you guys
11 will eventually achieve what you need.
12 I have a metaphor. The Eagles
13 just won the Super Bowl. I'm not a Eagles
14 fan. Two-years-ago, Nick Foles got dropped
15 from a team. He was considering retirement
16 and giving up everything. No one believed in
17 him. Imagine what would have happened if
18 Nick Foles got shut down if he retired.
19 Would the Eagles have won the Super Bowl?
20 Probably not. Doug Pederson believed in him
21 like you guys believe in the school. Someone
22 believed in him and gave him a chance.
23 And now the Eagles won the
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1 are the best team in the league. And I'm a
2 Giant's fan. It pains me to say that. But
3 they're the best team in the league. I got
4 you.
5 And so, you know, the school
6 has its struggles. Life has its struggles.
7 The school is not about pointing fingers.
8 That's not the culture they believe in. No
9 one really gave up on anybody at DAPSS. I
10 was there.
11 So saying that someone gave up
12 on somebody else is not the right term. You
13 got to fight for what you want and believe
14 in. I graduated. I went off to a
15 university. DAPSS -- I made a lot of good
16 friends. I met a lot of good people,
17 especially the staff and everything.
18 But if you want it, you will go
19 get it. Just keep fighting. Everything
20 happens for a reason no matter what happens
21 to the school. And so, just keep trucking on
22 and just keep making your word and your
23 opinions said. The school has never given up
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1 okay.
2 MR. MICHAEL BAILEY: My name is
3 Michael Bailey. M-I-C-H-A-E-L B-A-I-L-E-Y.
4 I'm a cadet at DAPSS. And
5 before I came to this school, I was
6 struggling. I didn't have the best of
7 grades. I failed grades. I've been kicked
8 out of school. I was getting suspended every
9 other week. Coming here, it builds structure
10 for kids. It puts them on the right path.
11 I'm an A/B student, average
12 now. I mean, I don't have too much to say.
13 We're a family. We're supposed to do the
14 right thing. I'm not going to be in the
15 public safety crowd. But still coming here,
16 it gives us all a chance to do the right
17 thing and be on track.
18 This school should not be shut
19 down. We're all family. We stick together
20 no matter who got fired or are not around any
21 more. It's a great place to be. It's a good
22 environment. It keeps kids out of trouble.
23 So that's all I got to say.
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1 public speaking. My name is Sondra Loose.
2 L-O-O-S-E. I'm Michael Bailey's aunt.
3 And, yes, he was in a lot of
4 trouble. And I want to let you know, I love
5 Charter Schools. The public schools are not
6 great for some kids.
7 Michael was slipping through
8 the cracks in public schools. If you close
9 down the school, you'll be failing him.
10 The public schools are just
11 numbers of kids. These teachers -- I begged
12 them to let Michael in. They gave him the
13 opportunity, and now he has got a lot more
14 opportunity than he would have had in the
15 public school.
16 In the public school, they
17 would let him slip through the cracks. He
18 would be known as a problem child. Here at
19 DAPSS, he has confidence. His grades are up.
20 He's proud of himself.
21 So I ask that you just don't
22 shut down the Charter School. My son
23 graduated from DMA. I didn't want them going
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1 Teachers don't know those kids. They know
2 you if you excel and they know you if you are
3 bad. If you're somewhere in the middle, you
4 are no one.
5 These teachers know Michael.
6 And they give him the opportunity to be who
7 he is and they understand him.
8 Charter schools need funding.
9 Public schools have all of the funding that
10 they can have. And I know going through DMA
11 that funding is not possible for Charter
12 Schools. And I think Charter Schools are the
13 way. Because public schools, there are too
14 many kids. These teachers know Michael.
15 They know his story. And they are going to
16 help him succeed.
17 So please let them build. Give
18 them the funding they need. Of course, it's
19 a small school. EMS. It's public safety.
20 That's not for every kid. But this has
21 opened up opportunities for Michael that he
22 would not have had in a public school where
23 the school would fail him. They haven't
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1 disappointed them either.
2 And I thank them for giving him
3 the opportunity.
4 MR. JASON CASPER: My name is
5 Jason Casper. C-A-S-P-E-R.
6 So I come here kind of with two
7 hats. I'm a community member. And I sit on
8 the Red Clay School Board. So I know that
9 there are a lot of good things that go on in
10 the traditional public schools because I see
11 it every day.
12 When I leave DAPSS at three,
13 3:30, I'm in a school -- or 1:30 every day.
14 I know that there are good things going on in
15 the traditional schools.
16 But we also have, in today's
17 society, a world of choice. These kids have
18 an opportunity, these students have an
19 opportunity to choose a school that's more
20 fitting to their needs, more tailored to
21 their needs.
22 My other role is, I'm the
23 Driving Education Instructor at DAPSS. I'm
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1 of -- some people may argue that -- some
2 people think it's the craziest job.
3 My kids want what I have to
4 give them. And I know test scores are a big
5 thing. And test scores require the student
6 to buy in. My students cannot pass my course
7 with anything less than a 70 because the
8 Delaware Department of Motor Vehicle requires
9 any one of us to get a 70.
10 The lowest grade I have on
11 average on a DMV final is about a 75. That
12 is not because I sit here before you or stand
13 here before you as the best teacher in the
14 world because that's not the truth. I just
15 happen to teach a class that they care about
16 that they want.
17 Kids need to buy into these
18 tests. Right now, test scores are based off
19 the SAT. A lot of kids don't buy into that.
20 My son had no plans of going to
21 college at all. He didn't care about the
22 SAT. He went into the Marine Corp. After
23 two weeks, he broke his hip. Change of
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1 taking his SAT seriously. My kid is a smart
2 kid. He didn't care about the SAT because in
3 his mind he did not need it.
4 My kids, my students care about
5 their blue certificate, their white
6 certificate. They care about passing the
7 course.
8 I've had some students that
9 have not been able to pass, not because they
10 could not pass the course work, but they were
11 not physically capable of handling the
12 vehicle.
13 If the kids can learn to buy
14 into something, like the test that the
15 Department requires or Department looks at
16 for data, I really think that there is a
17 chance that those test scores will improve.
18 Because I see it day after day, marking
19 period after marking period I get a new group
20 every marking period and I tell the kids the
21 same thing, you are about to take the most
22 important class you are ever going to take in
23 your life. And I sincerely mean that. In
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1 conjugate a verb, or it does not matter if
2 they can solve an equation, but if they can't
3 negotiate a turn or merge into traffic, they
4 can hurt themselves or hurt somebody that we
5 all care about.
6 So I stand behind the fact that
7 I do teach the most important class they'll
8 ever take.
9 I see what these kids are
10 learning in their public safety. That is a
11 nitch. Nitch market. It is not for
12 everybody. I hope that the Department and
13 the State Board will consider the major
14 modification. There is a lot that we can
15 offer these kids.
16 And just to make everyone
17 aware, the Colonial Board just voted yes to
18 take over DAPSS. So there is hope for this
19 Academy.
20 MS. LISA FLYNN: Hello. My
21 name is Lisa Flynn. L-I-S-A F-L-Y-N-N.
22 DAPSS has changed my life. I
23 am an employee there. DAPSS has changed my
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1 Delaware. I was the supervisor for the
2 Public Health Department. I met Mr. Sheldon
3 by coming over to see about their food
4 service, how they can get started.
5 After that visit, I said, If
6 you ever need anyone to run this facility,
7 give me a call. At that point, I was looking
8 for change. He called me. I came over to
9 run the food service. And you know in the
10 kitchen, everything happens in the kitchen.
11 You talk about everything. So my babies,
12 they expose everything to me during
13 lunchtime. The fact that they are doing
14 homework with no lights. They are not eating
15 any meals. It becomes a family. They end up
16 starting calling me mom as I was in that
17 position as a cafeteria worker.
18 I think if we close the school,
19 our children will get less out in a wide open
20 world where nobody would really care for them
21 like we care for them.
22 I know each and every one of
23 their names which is amazing. I think I may
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1 their names. When you come to the kitchen to
2 eat, you kind of know their names.
3 It would really do a disservice
4 to let these children wander out into a world
5 of nowhere. This is a great school. A great
6 concept. I believe that the narrative could
7 change if you give us a chance. Give us some
8 more time to put it together. I know that it
9 could change.
10 I am willing to do what I have
11 to do. Let's hit the ground running. I love
12 the staff. I lover Mr. Sheldon. He is a
13 great leader.
14 And so, I just want to thank
15 you for an opportunity to speak and allow
16 everyone to speak tonight.
17 Thank you.
18 MR. KARL HAYE: My name is Karl
19 Haye. K-A-R-L. H-A-Y-E. I am a Special
20 Education Teacher at DAPSS.
21 I'll make it quick. I really
22 do believe people saying hindsight is 20/20.
23 And there's some weight to that, obviously.
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1 powerful, I believe. Especially, when it is
2 not incumbered by the legacy of past mistakes
3 or petty incriminations and things that have
4 little or nothing do with the future.
5 So I want to tell you what I
6 see. And I think that my comment follows Ms.
7 Flynn's about changing the narrative.
8 I see DAPSS as a showcase in
9 public safety. I see it as a showcase not
10 only in public safety, but also in secondary
11 education.
12 I envision DAPSS as a secondary
13 school that is dedicated to developing young
14 men and women cadets toward career in public
15 safety or state or national public service
16 through the process of vigorous academics,
17 realistic hands-on training, attitude
18 development, fitness improvement and strict
19 disciplinary.
20 I believe that our ultimate
21 goal is to build a community of compassionate
22 civic-minded individuals who have
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1 community at large. Expectations that are
2 built upon character and ethics.
3 I remember many years ago when
4 President Bush spoke of the soft bigotry of
5 low expectations. And I not only concurred
6 with that opinion, but I think even now that
7 when we talk about low expectations, it goes
8 well beyond expectations of educational
9 success.
10 It also refers to expectations
11 as far as creating decent human beings.
12 DAPSS is a school that creates decent human
13 beings. I am referring to educated
14 individuals that are ready to demonstrate
15 that they are learning what they are being
16 taught, who are demonstrating the kind of
17 self discipline and perseverance and
18 resilience in accomplishing challenging but
19 realistic goals for them or facing drug
20 challenges and obstacles both inside and
21 outside of school.
22 Last year a young man literally
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1 from what I understand.
2 And you've heard the testimony
3 over and over about how DAPSS students not
4 only have taken on the idea of
5 civic-mindedness and public service, but have
6 really made it a hallmark of who they are as
7 people.
8 So my thing is simply this. In
9 this hour when you're considering where to
10 go, I've shared it with many people. I went
11 into teaching in the wake of the 911 attacks.
12 I was a public service in New York City at
13 the time. And what I marveled at was the
14 unbelievable esprit de core that you saw
15 amongst the public servant employees.
16 And when I had the opportunity
17 to teach at DAPSS, all of a sudden it became
18 crystal clear to me that this is an
19 environment and this is a place which can
20 really be cutting edge, a model for what
21 vocational learning can be again. But also a
22 place where public safety and
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1 hallmark of young people's lives.
2 We are living in a world right
3 now and you see it every day where people
4 just don't give a hoot about anybody other
5 than themselves. We even see evidence of
6 that here tonight.
7 But I can say that the young
8 people at DAPSS that I have been involved
9 with, they care. They care about themselves.
10 They care about their colleagues. They care
11 about their teachers. They care about their
12 community at large.
13 So I think they need every
14 opportunity to show not only just the caring,
15 but how they will be that next generation of
16 heros. I am convinced that is what they are.
17 They will be the next generation of heros
18 here in Delaware and in the United States.
19 Thank you.
20 MS. STOUFFER: I want to thank
21 you all for participating today.
22 The Secretary will consider
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4 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER
6 I, Gloria M. D'Amore, Registered
7 Professional Reporter and Notary Public, do
8 hereby certify that the foregoing record,
9 Pages 1 to 109 inclusive, is a true and
10 accurate transcript of my stenographic notes
11 taken on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, in the
12 above-captioned matter.
13 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set
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In The Matter Of:

Delaware Department of Education

Wilcox & Fetzer, Ltd.

Original File Dept of Education 02-13-18 Hearing Delaware Academy.txt

DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

IN RE: DELAWARE ACADEMY :

Public Hearing taken pursuant

to notice at the EastSide/CSNC Administration

Building, 1101 Delaware Street, New Castle,

Delaware, beginning at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday,

February 13, 2018, before Gloria M. D'Amore,

Registered Professional Reporter and Notary

WILCOX & FETZER

1 MS. STOUFFER: Good evening. I

2 declare this public hearing to be open.

3 My name is Denise Stouffer. I

4 am the Lead Education Associate, and I have

5 been appointed by the Secretary of Education

6 to conduct this public hearing.

7 At this time, I would ask the

8 Member of my Committee to introduce herself

9 for the record.

10 MS. HICKEY: My name is

11 Catherine Hickey. I am a Deputy Attorney

12 General with the Delaware Department of

13 Justice. I am serving as Counsel to The

15 MS. STOUFFER: The Charter of

16 Delaware Academy of Public Safety and

17 Security Charter School was placed on formal

18 review by the Department of Education with

19 the assent of State Board of Education.

20 As required by law, the matter

21 was referred to the Charter School

22 Accountability Committee for investigation

24 This is a joint public hearing.

1 This joint public hearing is being held by

2 the Department of Education and the State

3 Board of Education to assist in the decision

4 of whether the criteria set forth for

5 remedial action in the Delaware Code has been

7 This hearing provides the

8 school an opportunity to receive public

9 comment about this formal review.

10 I would like the record to

11 reflect that the notice of the time, date and

12 place of today's public hearing was published

13 in The News Journal and The Delaware State

14 News on January 23, 2018.

15 In addition, notice was posted

16 at the Charter School Accountability

17 Committee's official place of business on the

18 Department of Education's official website

19 and on the State Public Meeting Calendar on

20 the State's official website on January 9,

22 Further, the Applicant was

23 personally notified of the time, date, and

24 place of today's public hearing on

1 January 18, 2018.

2 A court reporter is present so

3 that a record of this hearing can be made.

4 It will be necessary for each speaker to

5 clearly identify his or herself before

6 beginning to speak so that the court reporter

7 will be able to note who you are.