I did not forget charter schools in my mammoth Freedom of Information Act request! With the above charter schools, the amount of employees making over $100,000 varies, usually based on student count. Two of them have NO employees making over $100,000. For Charter School of Newcastle and East Side Charter School, they are grouped together because they fall under the umbrella called Vision Academies. For five of these charter schools, comparing their demographics to Charter School of Wilmington is crazy. It has never been a secret that I have extreme issues with CSW’s demographics. Two of these schools are in Dover, one is in New Castle, and the other three are in Wilmington.
ACADEMIA ANTONIA ALONSO
K-4, Wilmington
494 Students
0 Over $100k, Principal: Jose Aviles, four years ago their former Head of School did not make over $100k
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 24.3%
American Indian: .4%
Asian: 0%
Hawaiian: 0%
Hispanic Latino: 69.6%
White: 5.7%
Multi-Racial: 0%
English Language Learners: 53.4%
Low-Income: 57.3%
Special Education: 6.1%
SALARIES OVER $100,000
*No employees making over $100,000
ACADEMY OF DOVER
K-5, Dover
270 Students
0 Over $100k, Principal: Cheri Marhsall, four years ago former (and now convicted) Principal Noel Rodriguez made $119,432
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 73%
American Indian: 0%
Asian: 0%
Hawaiian: .7%
Hispanic/Latino: 13.3%
White: 10%
Multi-Racial: 3%
English Language Learners: 11.5%
Low-Income: 67.8%
Special Education: 6.7%
SALARIES OVER $100,000
*No employees making over $100,000
CAMPUS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
K-8, Dover
417 Students
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 54.9%
American Indian: .5%
Asian: 1.7%
Hawaiian: .2%
Hispanic/Latino: 8.9%
White: 27.1%
Multi-Racial: 6.7%
English Language Learners: 1.7%
Low-Income: 40%
Special Education: 9.1%
SALARIES OVER $100,000
Leroy Travers, Head of School, $103,000 (four years ago their former Head of School did not make over $100,000)
VISION ACADAMIES
Charter School of New Castle:
K-8, New Castle
751 Students
4 Over $100k
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 81.2%
American Indian: .7%
Asian: 1.1%
Hawaiian: .5%
Hispanic/Latino: 10.8%
White: 4.3%
Multi-Racial: 1.5%
East Side Charter School:
K-8, Wilmington
415 Students
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 94.5%
American Indian: 0%
Asian: 0%
Hawaiiian: 0%
Hispanic/Latino: 5.3%
White: 0%
Multi-Racial: .2%
English Language Learners: .2%
Low-Income: 79.3%
Special Education: 14.5%
SALARIES OVER $100k
*Also includes Charter School of New Castle (under umbrella of Vision Academies):
Aaron Bass, Chief Executive Officer, $150,000
Stan Bobowski, Chief Academic Officer, $130,000
Laretha Odumosu, Principal Middle School, $111,000
Rachel Valentin, Principal Elementary School, $111,000
*Four years ago, Lamont Browne with East Side made $143,633, Tennell Brewington from Family Foundations Academy (now CSNC) made $127,418 and Sean Moore from FFA made $127,338
CHARTER SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON
9-12, Wilmington
971 Students
5 over $100k
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 7.3%
American Indian: .5%
Asian: 33.7%
Hawaiian: .1%
Hispanic/Latino: 4.7%
White: 51.7%
Multi-Racial: 2%
English Language Learners: 0%
Low-Income: 4.5%
Special Education: .9%
SALARIES OVER $100,000
Eric Anderson, Vice-President/Vice-Principal, $116,398
Jed Desmond, Chief Financial Officer/Bus Coordinator, $116,398
Patrick Liberato, Computer Science Teacher/Information Technology $109,577
Samuel Paoli, President/Principal, $137,500 (his salary four years ago was $116,368, huge jump!)
Daniel Saggione, Information Technology, $100,576
Most charter schools (but not all) serve far fewer children than district schools. Pay should be commiserate on the needs of the population served and the school’s unit count.
I’d like to know – when a school/district ends up in a budget deficit, how many of these leaders sacrifice part of their salaries to “share the pain.”
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The reason Academia doesn’t have anyone making over $100K, is because the current Board President and her Treasurer make for impossible working conditions for respected school leaders and now they placed the Board President’s relative in the Interim Executive Director position. They’ve also made it impossible for other board members to stay on due to their constant meddling in day-to-day operations.
Worth a look
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