I underestimated Colonial School District for years. I always thought they were just kind of there and they were off my radar. I didn’t write much about them. Under the leadership of Superintendent Dusty Blakey, Colonial is changing before our very eyes. How and why is something I plan on writing much more about in the future. Colonial struggles to hit that 10,000 student mark. They face the same thing other districts up there do as they are surrounded by charter schools. Which baffles me why Blakey would push for the district to be an authorizer of Delaware Academy of Public Safety & Security. But I digress. Colonial’s board is in for a massive shake-up in the upcoming school board election so it will be interesting to see where this district goes in the future. Blakey is everywhere these days, attending meetings in Dover all the time and pushing for public/private partnerships. But a growing discontent among teachers in his district may force Blakey to take a second look at his big push for more Relay Graduate School teachers. The district does have 6 less administrators making $100,000 and over than they did 4 years ago.
Colonial School District:
16 Schools
9,819 Students, four years ago: 9,976
48 Over $100k
DEMOGRAPHICS
African-American: 44.3%
American Indian: .2%
Asian: 2.6%
Hawaiian: .2%
Hispanic/Latino: 21.5%
White: 27.9%
Multi-Racial: 3.2%
English Language Learners: 11.4%
Low-Income: 39.8%
Special Education: 17.7%
SALARIES OVER $100k
Jennifer Alexander, Principal, Pleasantville, $135,072
Paula Angelucci, Supervisor, Nutrition Services, $142,941
Nicholas Baker, Supervisor, Soc. Studies, Science, Etc., $112,191
Daniel Bartnik, Principal, Bedford Gunning, $115,000
Christal Beasley, Principal, Leach, $125,025
Dolan (Dusty) Blakey, Superintendent, $176,384 (the former Superintendent, Dorothy Linn, made $185,724 four years ago, Blakey, an Assistant Superintendent at the time, made $153,842)
Lisa Brewington, Assistant Principal, William Penn, $105,905
Richard Bryson, Assistant Principal, Southern E.S., $102,828
Sherrie Clark, Director, Curriculum & Instruction, $131,084
Jon Cooper, Director, Student Services, $145,560
Katrina Daniels, Assistant Principal, Colwyck Center, $104,921
Lindsay DiEmidio, Assistant Principal, Southern E.S., $110,058
Stephen DiGennaro, Assistant Principal, McCullough, $120,007
David Distler, Principal, Eisenberg, $123,200
Tierney DuBard, Assistant Principal, William Penn, $123,413
Lori Duerr, Assistant Superintendent, $151,172
Marc Emerick, Assistant Principal, Gunning Bedford, $105,850
Brian Erskine, Principal, William Penn, $133,652
Emily Falcon, Chief Financial Officer, $138,242
Elizabeth Fleetwood, Director, Human Resources, $146,217
Thomas Gavin, Supervisor, Instructional Technology, $105,745
Jeffory Gibeault, Principal, Southern E.S., $128,512
Karen Gilbert, Director, Operations, $161,783
Valarie Hickman, Assistant Principal, Eisenberg, $122,790
Elizabeth Howell, Principal, Wilbur, $141,772
Roberta Jacobs, Assistant Principal, $105,893
William Johnston, Assistant Principal, William Penn, $105,000
Erik Jones, Assistant Principal, William Penn, $105,838
Michelle Jones, Assistant Principal, Read M.S., $120,007
Nneka Jones, Principal, New Castle E.S., $135,072
Crystal Lancour, Supervisor, Math, $114,107
Peter Leida, Director, Elementary Schools, $148,863
Jeffrey Menzer, Director, Secondary Schools, $148,822
Andrew Moffett, Supervisor, Transportation, $129,726
Janissa Nuneville, Principal, Castle Hills, $125,068
Ige Purnell, Principal, McCullough, $136,174
Michael Rees, Assistant Principal, McCullough, $133,422
Urahn Roberts, Assistant Principal, Gunning Bedford, $120,007
TeRay Ross, Assistant Principal, Castle Hills, $104,752
Stacie Ruiz, Principal, Wilmington Manor, $139,654
Holly Sage, Principal, Read M.S., $141,906
Virginia Schreppler, Assistant Principal, Leach, $107,946
Philip Smallwood, Supervisor, IT, $105,000
Douglas Timm, Principal, Downie, $125,362
Kevin White, Principal, Wallin School, $129,913
Jennifer Wisowaty, Assistant Principal, William Penn, $105,000
Nicholas Wolfe, Assistant Principal, Read M.S., $105,758
James Zimmerman Jr., Deputy Principal, William Penn, $123,096
The Season Of Myths 
It would be greatly appreciated if the secretaries could at least get a decent pay increase, the work in schools is over whelming money with 48 administrators with 6 figure pays totalling to $6,025,710.00 is heart wrenching, when secretary are constantly putting out fires and their lives being in jeopardy. Where is the hearts with showing appreciation
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