School Boards Matter
School Board Engagement
What’s one way to make a positive impact in your community a couple of hours a month?
Show up to school board meetings in your district. You can do it in person or virtually (if available). Speak up for parents and students, suggest future agenda items you aren’t hearing them discuss, tell a story about what you hear going on in schools, or bring new viewpoints or ideas to them.
Click on First State Educate’s SCHOOL BOARD/CHARTER SCHOOL LISTINGS to find out when your local school board meets and what’s on the agenda.
If you attend and hear something interesting, let Citizens for Delaware Schools know. We’ll get the word out as a public service.
FOUR ISSUES DESERVING OF TOP PRIORITY:
- Greater focus on and accountability for improving student academic proficiency in English, math, and history/civics (founding principles). This is the most important of the priorities. The other priorities listed enable schools to achieve this one.
- Ensure schools embrace commonsense policies to create safe, positive learning environments for students and teachers.
- Stronger engagement, involvement, and transparency with parents with respect to the education of their children.
- A consistent approach to fiscal transparency to enable greater flexibility and efficient education funding that delivers better education for every student.
Visit the C4DS You Tube channel to learn more about these issues
THIS PAGE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR THE 2025 SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS
School Board Candidates for 2025
The list below lists all the candidates who have filed to run for school board in 2025. Filing deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7. After that, we will be asking all candidates we are able to contact to complete a survey. Their verbatim responses will be available below.
Candidates who submit a survey will be highlighted in orange The orange highlight does not indicate any endorsement. If some candidates respond to other surveys but not ours, we’ll include links to those sites as well. Those who are unopposed do not face an election. It is our hope that they also respond to our survey so you know their views.
Never before has your vote in a school board election been so important. Inform yourself and then vote wisely. Our kids deserve your support.
New Castle County
APPOQUINIMINK
At-Large – Sandhya Celestin-Brown
CHRISTINA
District A – Janiene Campbell
RED CLAY
District B – Devin Hyson
District G – Stan Spoor
BRANDYWINE
District A – Alexander Najemy
District B – Karen M. Hartley-Nagle
District E – Frank Livoy
COLONIAL
District B – open
District C – open (2-year term)
District D – Christopher Piecuch Sr.
SMYRNA
At-Large
- Justine L. Flint
- Charlotte Middleton
Kent County
CAESAR RODNEY
At-Large
- Dr. Joyce Denman
- Amy Spampinato
CAPITAL
At-Large ( 2 seats)
- Dr. Anthony DePrima
- Vickie Pendleton
- Mozella Richardson Kamara
- Donna Johnson Geist
MILFORD
At-Large – Yanelle Powell
Sussex County
CAPE HENLOPEN
District B – Jason Bradley
District C
- Patty Maull
- Laura Parsons
At-Large – Bill Collick
District 1 – Lisa Hudson Briggs
District 1 – Open
District 2 – Jerry Peden Jr.
District 4 – Open
SEAFORD
At-Large – Dr. Jeffrey Benson, Jr.
DELMAR
At-Large – Raymond Vincent
At-Large – Jana Pugh
WOODBRIDGE
At-Large (2 seats)
- Open
- Open