Acadia Parish School Board

7 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · 9,459 students · 8 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 4, 2026: Acadia Parish board adopts 2026-2027 budget totaling $133,876,341 Play 18:38
Newest meeting we have: Aug 4, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: James Higginbotham, School Board President · Rebecca Foux Atkinson, School Board Member · James Etta David, School Board Vice-President · Delo Hebert, School Board Member · Steve Jones, School Board Member · Glenn Quebedeaux, School Board Member · Ike Richard, School Board Member · Milton R. Simar, School Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 27 minTuesday, August 4, 2026Acadia Parish board adopts 2026-2027 budget totaling $133,876,341Speakers: James Etta David, Delo Hebert

Play 18:38

Board meeting · 1 h 08 minTuesday, May 5, 2026Speakers: James Etta David, Steve Jones, Milton R. Simar

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The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingJames HigginbothamSchool Board President · District 7 · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameRebecca Foux AtkinsonSchool Board Member · District 4—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings James Etta DavidSchool Board Vice-President · District 12meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Delo HebertSchool Board Member · District 32meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Steve JonesSchool Board Member · District 53meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Glenn QuebedeauxSchool Board Member · District 21meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Ike RichardSchool Board Member · District 6—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Milton R. SimarSchool Board Member · District 82meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 7 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance16%7%–36%

Ceremony and recognition4%0%–10%

Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

Public comment0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 18% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 7 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on May 5, 2026, heard from 2.

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 7 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Aug 4	May 5
James Etta David	Present	Not recorded
Steve Jones	Present	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2200030 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district