We’ve only ever done one thing: California charter schools.
Since 2003, Delta has run the back office for charter schools across California and Nevada, and nothing else. No districts. No private clients. Just charters, and the specific, shifting, sometimes maddening world you operate in. We know it because it’s all we know.
What twenty-plus years in one world buys you.
We’re not learning your world on your dime.
We’ve sat through the authorizer oversight visit, the LCAP revision, the P-2 scramble, hundreds of times, across dozens of schools.
Nothing’s outsourced.
Your payroll, your reporting, your books, all under one roof, by people who answer to your school, not a subcontractor.
The same team, year after year.
They learn your school once. You stop starting over.
We read the rule changes so you don’t have to.
When Sacramento changes something (and it will), we’ve already read it, and we’ll tell you what it means before it bites your school.
Bringing in help isn’t admitting you failed.
Let’s name the thing you might be feeling. Handing your finances to an outside firm can feel like saying you couldn’t manage your own school. We’ve watched capable directors put off the call for a year because of it.
Here’s the honest version. The best-run charter schools we work with don’t have superhero directors doing everything themselves. They have directors who decided their time was worth more spent leading than reconciling. That isn’t giving up control. It’s the most in-control move you can make.
You’ll still be the one your board looks to. You’ll just walk in with the numbers already handled.
The people who’ll actually know your school.
Delta was founded and is run by people who came up through educational finance, banking, law, and school business operations, decades of it. The people behind your team:
Joanne Fountain
Chief Executive Officer
Background and tenure to be added.
Berenice Oceguera
Chief Financial Officer
Background and tenure to be added.
Thomas Richard
Chief Information Technology Officer
Background and tenure to be added.
Kari Wallace
Director of Payroll and Recruitment
Background and tenure to be added.
Debbie Howard
Director of School Finance
Background and tenure to be added.
Cindy Nava
Accounts Specialist Supervisor
Background and tenure to be added.
Every person on your team owns the company.
Delta is 100% employee-owned. That’s not a line on a wall. It changes how the work gets done. When everyone’s an owner, they treat your school’s books like their own stake, because they are. It’s why our people stay, why the same faces are on your account in year ten, and why “good enough” isn’t really in the vocabulary. Employee-owned firms tend to keep their people and their clients longer than the alternative. And in this work, the people who know your school staying put is the whole game.
Twenty years is a long time to keep a client. We’ve done it more than once.
A long-tenured director tells the story of the relationship: what their school was juggling when they started with Delta, and what changed over the years that kept them.
Come see if we’re the right fit.
The best way to know is a conversation. Tell us about your school; we’ll tell you the truth about whether we can help.