Brown Deer School District Board of Education

8 meetings on our record, 4 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · 1,647 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 25, 2026: Board approves 2026-27 annual meeting budget, moves annual meeting to October 15 Play 55:44
Newest meeting we have: Aug 25, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Todd Beadle, PRESIDENT · Felita Daniels Ashley, CLERK · Charonda Farrington, MEMBER · Lynn Halmar, MEMBER · Dorothea Macon, TREASURER · Dorinthia Robinson, Vice-PRESIDENT · Meredith Welch, MEMBER

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 37 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Board approves 2026-27 annual meeting budget, moves annual meeting to October 15Chronic absenteeismEnrollmentSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Dorinthia Robinson, Dorothea Macon, Felita Daniels Ashley, Lynn Halmar and 1 more

Board meeting · 1 h 02 minTuesday, January 27, 2026Speakers: Meredith Welch

Board meeting · 1 h 25 minWednesday, January 14, 2026Reading and test scoresVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Dorinthia Robinson, Felita Daniels Ashley, Lynn Halmar, Charonda Farrington

Special meeting · 1 h 29 minTuesday, November 11, 2025Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Dorinthia Robinson, Dorothea Macon, Felita Daniels Ashley, Lynn Halmar and 2 more

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.

Runs the meetingTodd BeadlePRESIDENT · shown, not ranked1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting

Members · listed by nameFelita Daniels AshleyCLERK5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Charonda FarringtonMEMBER2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Lynn HalmarMEMBER4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Dorothea MaconTREASURER4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Dorinthia RobinsonVice-PRESIDENT5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Meredith WelchMEMBER5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 8 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance18%6%–33%

Safety and discipline1%0%–5%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–26%

Public comment0%0%–26%

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 8 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 8 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Aug 25	Jan 27	Jan 14	Nov 11
Lynn Halmar	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Charonda Farrington	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Meredith Welch	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Todd Beadle	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Dorinthia Robinson	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Dorothea Macon	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Felita Daniels Ashley	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5501800 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district