Dr. Berry read into the record of the Board meeting, the statement on the BASSE website regarding the process of formal review with the Delaware Department of Education.

Dr. Berry reviewed the process of formal review: DDOE provides BASSE with a series of questions to be responded to; BASSE responds to the questions, and has a meeting with DDOE to further clarify; there is a public hearing and a second meeting with DDOE prior to their submitting their recommendations.

Dr. Berry reviewed meetings with the Delaware Charter School Network, noting in particular we are in the middle of the school choice process throughout the state.

We are looking forward to sharing the building with an MLK event.

Raushann Austin shared that the new math teacher has joined the staff in the building and we continue to interview for the open ELA position.

The Winter Dance was a big success.

Ms. Austin and Dr. Cauley met with Sussex Tech to learn more about their programs and to begin exploring partnership opportunities for our students both in CTE and college and career readiness. 

There is currently a door decorating contest going on for the holidays, and holiday meals are being made available to families requesting them.

Ms. Austin will be meeting with 9th grade families on Wednesday January 7.

January 14 is the next PAC meeting.

Snack Shack is returning during lunch.

Moving forward, we have identified a staff person to work with getting student government up and running; and we are working on several new clubs including Cheer, Basketball and the Swift Club--a partnership with Apple Computers to teach kids how to code.

$1,000 sponsorship and $1300 in ticket sales so far for the Donna Brazile event.

Keep getting the word out.

Candace Shetzler reported we had completed a routine special education audit in December, and received a positive verbal report support.  We await the written report.

We are also completing a routine review with the Autism Network which is going well.

December 1 count will be officially completed by the deadline, January 31, 2026.

CBOC met December 16.  The November financial reports had some required corrections before posting.

Raushann reviewed November financials and we are on track with income and expenditures.

We have made some changes to the September and October financial reports to be more in line with the reporting structure we will be using since PCA stopped working with us.  Additionally, we didn't have complete access to all expenditures reports so updates have been made.