Austin ISD Board of Trustees

11 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 4 h 11 min · 72,830 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 10, 2026: Austin ISD trustees accept 3rd grade literacy and numeracy monitoring reports Play 1:28:45
Next · Thursday, November 5, 2026: 6:00 PM · Austin ISD Central Office - Board Auditorium · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Sep 10, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Kathryn Whitley Chu, Board member · Andrew Gonzales, Vice President

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 2 h 30 minThursday, September 10, 2026Austin ISD trustees accept 3rd grade literacy and numeracy monitoring reportsBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Candace Hunter, Kevin Foster, Kathryn Whitley Chu, Lynn Boswell and 2 more

Play 1:28:45

Board meeting · 2 h 45 minThursday, August 27, 2026Austin ISD board hears projection of $105 million deficit for last fiscal yearBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scoresVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Candace Hunter, LaRessa Quintana, Kevin Foster, Lynn Boswell and 2 more

Play 54:04

Board meeting · 5 h 08 minThursday, August 13, 2026Austin ISD trustees approve hazardous traffic conditions resolutionBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Candace Hunter, LaRessa Quintana, Kevin Foster, Kathryn Whitley Chu and 2 more

Play 3:46:46

Special meeting · 2 h 04 minThursday, July 30, 2026Board approves modifying Paredes turnaround plan, reassigning students to Mendez and BaileySchool closuresReading and test scoresSpeakers: Candace Hunter, LaRessa Quintana, Kevin Foster, Kathryn Whitley Chu and 2 more

Play 14:46

Who does the talking

No one member stands apart on the Austin ISD board: 5 of the 6 members we rank could rank first

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, May 7, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEarly readLess of this board's speech is named so far, so its ranks are wider. Each rank is a 90% range across 10 resampled meetings, so "2nd–4th" means the data can't place them more exactly. The ranges may widen as we name more of the speech.

Coverage: about 74% of members’ speaking time named (54%–88%)

Minutes = time we heard them speak per meeting, from the speech we have named so far, so each is a floor: at least that much.

Runs the meeting

—Lynn BoswellPresident · District 5 · runs the meeting, not ranked18.5min, at least10 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart5.9questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · ranked by minutes per meeting

1st–5thDavid KauffmanBoard member · District 79.8min, at least10 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated23%of the members’ talking · 11%–38%12.3questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–6thCandace HunterBoard member · District 18.3min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated19%of the members’ talking · 11%–29%6.8questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–5thKevin FosterSecretary · District 38.0min, at least10 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated18%of the members’ talking · 11%–29%1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–6thArati SinghBoard member · At-Large Position 97.2min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated16%of the members’ talking · 10%–27%8.8questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–6thFernando Lucas de UriosteBoard member · At-Large Position 85.8min, at least7 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated13%of the members’ talking · 8%–24%4.1questions asked per meeting, at least

3rd–6thKathryn Whitley ChuBoard member · District 43.7min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated8%of the members’ talking · 5%–20%1.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · not ranked

—LaRessa QuintanaBoard member · District 2 · We could name only 26% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%2.0min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least

—Andrew GonzalesVice President · District 6 · We could name only 20% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.4min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Minutes speaking per full board meeting held while seated; a meeting they missed or stayed silent in counts as zero · bar = minutes named so far · line = our margin: members whose lines overlap may sit in either order · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

Next meetingThursday, November 5, 20266:00 PM · Austin ISD Central Office - Board AuditoriumBoard Information Session - November 05, 2026The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 11 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

I wanna start with a couple of cautions. One, communication is not clear. Except for one, every parent that called in about CIS is from a Band 1 school. …Candace HunterBoard member · Austin ISD Board of Trustees · May 21, 2026Watch the full meeting from 3:00:00
What's the rationale of adding an instructional day on the last day of school? …David KauffmanBoard member · Austin ISD Board of Trustees · May 7, 2026Watch the full meeting from 3:48:37

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance34%21%–48%

Public comment16%10%–23%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–19%

The two readers didn’t agree on 11% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 11 had at least one. The busiest, on May 21, 2026, heard from 46.

46 on May 21, 202646 speakers23 speakers21.5 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 11 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 10	Aug 27	Aug 13	Jul 30	Jul 28	Jun 18	Jun 11	Jun 4	May 21	May 7
Candace Hunter	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Kevin Foster	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Fernando Lucas de Urioste	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Andrew Gonzales	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 4808940 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district