Anoka-Hennepin School Board

6 meetings on our record, 4 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · 38,631 students · 6 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026: Anoka-Hennepin board adopts $16.5 million transfer to health insurance fund Play 30:41
Newest meeting we have: Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Zach Arco, Director · Matt Audette, Treasurer · Linda Hoekman, Co-

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 26 minMonday, September 28, 2026Anoka-Hennepin board adopts $16.5 million transfer to health insurance fundAI in schoolsSpeakers: Zach Arco, Kacy Deschene, Michelle Langenfeld, Jeff Simon

Play 30:41

Board meeting · 2 h 22 minMonday, August 24, 2026AI in schoolsSpeakers: Zach Arco, Kacy Deschene, Michelle Langenfeld, Jeff Simon

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Board meeting · 2 h 25 minMonday, June 22, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Zach Arco, Matt Audette, Michelle Langenfeld, Jeff Simon

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Work session · 1 h 02 minMonday, June 8, 2026Speakers: Kacy Deschene, Michelle Langenfeld, Jeff Simon

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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 4 from the past year on our record.

Members · listed by nameZach ArcoDirector · District 24meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 4 meetings · 1 clip Matt AudetteTreasurer · District 42meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 2 meetings · 1 clip Kacy DescheneDirector · District 33meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 3 meetings Linda HoekmanCo- · District 1—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Michelle LangenfeldCo- · District 54meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 4 meetings Jeff SimonClerk · District 64meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 4 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 6 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

If, uh, if a teacher or a para is being hit, hit or hurt by a student, can they take action to stop it? And if they can, what can they do?Matt AudetteTreasurer · Anoka-Hennepin School BoardWatch the full meeting from 43:21

If any teacher whoever told me that my kids disrupted a classroom, I would deal with it the same day, and I would only send them back when I knew that that wasn't going to happen again.Zach ArcoDirector · Anoka-Hennepin School BoardWatch the full meeting from 33:26

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance15%0%–29%

Public comment10%2%–15%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 9% 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 6 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 4 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 24, 2026, heard from 11.

11 on Aug 24, 202611 speakers6 speakers4.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 2703180 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district