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Vickie L. Pendleton

At-large seat. Earliest election found: 2025.

Elections and terms

From Delaware Department of Elections official results. A year with no row means we found no result for this member that year.

  • May 13, 2025

    At-large seat

    Won with 471 votes. Also on the ballot: Jordan Davis (331).

    Three-year term; the results do not give the end date.

    Official results (PDF file)

Attendance

From the roll call in each set of public minutes AskDover has read. A member who arrived after roll call is counted as attending.

32 of 35 meetings attended (91%), February 19, 2025 to August 24, 2026.

Votes

Named roll calls from the public minutes. Unanimous votes do not list names, so they are counted separately. Procedural motions are left out.

Named roll calls: 24 (18 yes, 5 no, 1 recused). Unanimous votes while present: 87.

  • August 24, 2026Yes on Revisions 2026-2027 Student Success Guide (Resolution No. 27-027. Passed. Minutes
  • August 19, 2026Recused on Personnel – Appointment of Associate Principal, South Dover Elementary School (Resolution No. 27-014). Passed. Minutes
  • July 1, 2026Yes on Consent items. Passed. Minutes
  • July 1, 2026Yes on Collective Bargaining Agreements between Board of Education and Capital Educators Association, Capital Educational Secretaries Association and Capital Constable Association (Resolution No. 27-009). Passed. Minutes
  • July 1, 2026No on Proposed District Closure on July 2, 2026 (Resolution No. 27-010). Did not pass. Minutes
  • June 17, 2026No on FY27 District Preliminary Budget (Resolution No. 26-132). Did not pass, 1 to 4. Minutes
  • June 17, 2026Yes on Delaware School Boards Association Membership (Resolution No. 26-135). Passed. Minutes
  • May 26, 2026Yes on Personnel (Resolution No. 26-103). Passed. Minutes
  • February 26, 2026Yes on Dover High School Delaware Financial Literacy Graduation Requirement for Incoming Freshmen 2026-2027 School Year (Resolution No. 26-077). Passed, 3 to 2. Minutes
  • February 18, 2026No on New Delaware Financial Literacy Requirement Dover High School for Incoming Freshmen 2026- 2027 School Year (Resolution No. 26-077). Did not pass, 2 to 3. Minutes
  • February 18, 2026Yes on Attendance Board Member National School Boards Association Conference April 10-12, 2026 (Resolution No. 26-089). Passed. Minutes
  • February 18, 2026No on Certified Personnel III. Leaves E-1 Leaves – Sabbatical (Resolution No. 26-092). Passed. Minutes
  • January 21, 2026Yes on Dover High School Theatre Arts Pathway Proposal (Resolution No. 26-078). Passed. Minutes
  • December 10, 2025Yes on Revisions Policy #500-26 Donated Leave Policy (First Reading) (Resolution No. 26-066). Passed. Minutes
  • December 3, 2025No on Appointment of Principal, Kent County Secondary Intensive Learning Center (Resolution No. 26-057). Did not pass, 2 to 3. Minutes
  • December 3, 2025Yes on Appointment of Principal, Kent County Secondary Intensive Learning Center (Resolution No. 26-057). Passed, 3 to 2. Minutes
  • September 17, 2025Yes on William Henry Campus Project – Schematic Design Approval (Resolution No. 26-036). Passed. Minutes
  • September 17, 2025Yes on Collective Bargaining Agreement between Capital School District Board of Education and Capital Paraprofessionals Association (Resolution No. 26-037). Passed. Minutes
  • September 17, 2025Yes on Memorandum of Understanding Paraprofessionals as Teachers (Resolution No. 26-038). Passed. Minutes
  • August 20, 2025Yes on Attendance of Board Members to National School Boards Association CUBE Annual Conference September 11, 2025-September 13, 2025, Los Angeles, CA (Resolution No. 26-026). Passed. Minutes
  • June 25, 2025Yes on Appointment of Principal, Fairview Early Childhood Center (Resolution No. 25-131). Passed. Minutes
  • June 24, 2025Yes on Appointment of Principal, Towne Point Elementary School (Resolution No. 25-130). Passed. Minutes
  • March 10, 2025Yes on Memorandum of Understanding Capital School District Board of Education and Capital Educators Association (Resolution No. 25-091). Passed. Minutes
  • February 19, 2025Yes on Ratification of Termination of Ray & Associates (Resolution No. 25-089). Passed. Minutes

Campaign finance

Delaware lets school board candidates who plan to raise or spend less than $5,000 file a Certificate of Intention instead of forming a campaign committee. They do not file campaign finance reports unless they go over $5,000.

Filed a Certificate of Intention, so no campaign finance reports are required and none are filed.

  • March 12, 2025Certificate of Intention: Vickie Pendleton, CF ID 05006361

From the Delaware Campaign Finance Reporting System (opens another website), checked November 2, 2026. Rules from the Department of Elections (opens another website). Not every past election has a filing listed.

Recent statements at meetings

From machine transcripts of board recordings. The words can be wrong; check the recording.

  • October 14, 2026, at 35:33

    Um, I just have, well, um Mrs. Geiss mentioned the IABs, and that would have been a question for me too for me as well.

  • October 14, 2026, at 35:42

    Um, the other thing that I'm interested in seeing, I'm interested in seeing the disaggregated data.

  • October 14, 2026, at 35:50

    Um, and then one of the things we used to do, because we know we have um, we can track, well, for lack of a better term, track, we can see where how kids did in sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade, and then um

  • October 14, 2026, at 36:44

    and have conversations with kids about, okay, sixth grade, this is where you were. You need this, because it may have been okay in sixth, but that same score won't help you in seventh and same thing with eighth.

  • October 14, 2026, at 36:56

    So I'm just curious if that's part of a conversation that maybe teachers have with with students, or if they take a look at that deeply. Um, because I think sometimes kids realize, I was not that far away. You know, just a little bit more, whatever may help. So that's about all I have, but I would like to see the uh other data, please.

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:20:21

    Hi. Yes. I really don't have a question, but you know that the barbershop, we call it Barbershop Read with my sorority for educators, National Sorority Phi Delta Kappa Incorporated. We uh implemented that about 4 years ago, putting books in barbershops downtown Dover. So, um

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:25:20

    Um, the resource center at Solid Rock, that's a family resource center? Do you have books in or do you know if parents utilize that?

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:46:21

    Um, I do not have any questions, but well maybe I do, anyway. Um you mentioned, I know you- this work has been done with the University of Delaware, um the role that they're playing. But um since you get student teachers from Delaware State University and from Wilmington U, do you have a a thought about, and I know they're not certified, but when they come in the expectation will be whatever that um mentoring teacher is doing, that student teacher should be doing. So do you have a thought of possibly looping in the other universities, and at at least with their TEP programs, to do some kind of workshop with the student teachers, that prior to them coming in or anything like that?

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:55:07

    Uh, good evening again. As you see that we are, the board members, we are here, and others as well, uh, leadership here, with our pink on. Dr. Calhoun, okay, I'm calling you out. Um,

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:55:28

    we we truly um believe in supporting anyone who has struggled with any kind of illness. So, as we know that this month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and so since this is our meeting for October, we wanted to say that we are standing with anyone in our district who may have survived, and then um if you've lost a family member to breast cancer or anything of that nature. I have a sister who is a twice survivor, so this is really near and dear to my heart. You started this, but I'm not going to cry. But anyway, um

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:56:08

    but what I was able to do between the last time and this time, not not a lot, but of course it was mentioned, homecoming and went to the game, did another visit at the middle school, Mr. Robinson and Dr. Satchell, they're doing a fabulous job there, um and the teachers, and anyone in that building responsible for touching the lives of our young people. You know, we we heard a lot about the schools before, so when we see these good things happening, it is just as important to highlight those great things that are going on. And I have to say across the district, I have not gotten into other, all the buildings so far this year, but we I will, but what I have seen across the entire district, folks are working. They're earning their keep, not that they did before, but I want to just highlight it this year that um

  • October 14, 2026, at 1:57:05

    so I'm very excited in the direction that the district is going. It's going in a very positive direction. I also um, of course, last night we went to the State Teacher of the Year uh dinner, and then um on last Friday the 9th, I had an opportunity again, I know you've heard me mention my other sorority, the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Incorporated. It is a sorority of educators, and last Friday they were approved to present a workshop, so I went in to support them. I didn't go in to present, but I went in to support them. Uh that was a day I had to wear red and gold, and um and so the presentation was on adverse childhood experiences, and it was really a good, it was a good day, and people were, they seem to have been positive with what

Contact: through the district office, 302-672-1500. The district's page lists no direct phone or email for members.