Clayton County Board of Education

6 meetings on our record, all from the past year · 50,832 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026: Clayton County board votes not to renew arena management agreement Play 3:28:38
Next · Monday, November 2, 2026: Time not posted · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Sep 28, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Mary Baker, Board Vice Chair · Mark Christmas, Board member · Jessie Goree, Board member · Victoria Williams, Board member

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

Work session · 3 h 33 minMonday, September 28, 2026Clayton County board votes not to renew arena management agreementAI in schoolsReading and test scoresVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Jasmine Bowles, Mark Christmas, Jessie Goree, Victoria Williams and 2 more

Play 3:28:38

Board meeting · 49 minWednesday, September 9, 2026Clayton County school board approves CTAE grant, budget calendar and board protocolsSpeakers: Jasmine Bowles, Sabrina Hill, Joy Tellis Cooper, Benjamin Straker

Play 41:30

Work session · 2 h 03 minMonday, July 27, 2026Clayton County board votes to terminate MOU with Clayton County Public Schools FoundationPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Jasmine Bowles, Mark Christmas, Jessie Goree, Victoria Williams and 2 more

Play 17:37

Public hearing · 44 minMonday, June 15, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollment

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Dec 8, 2025 – Sep 28, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat6 board meetings on our record; we rank members seated for 8.

Coverage: about 60% of members’ speaking time named (37%–61%)

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

Benjamin StrakerBoard Chair · District 9 · runs the meeting, not ranked6.2min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Jasmine BowlesBoard member · District 1 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 84.9min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Mark ChristmasBoard member · District 2 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Jessie GoreeBoard member · District 3 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.8min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Victoria WilliamsBoard member · District 4 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Deatrice Dee HaneyBoard member · District 5 · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.1min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Mary BakerBoard Vice Chair · District 6 · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.1min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Sabrina HillBoard member · District 7 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 83.1min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Joy Tellis CooperBoard member · District 8 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.1min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions 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 · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

Next meetingMonday, November 2, 2026November 2, 2026 Board MeetingThe district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 6 meetings on our record

Clips

What Joy Tellis Cooper said on Sep 28, 2026

On the map · Phones in school

July 27, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%3%–27%

Safety and discipline3%0%–9%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 44% 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; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 9, 2026, heard from 4.

4 on Sep 9, 20264 speakers2 speakers0.8 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 5 of the 6 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 28	Sep 9	Jul 27	Jun 15	Feb 7	Dec 8
Benjamin Straker	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded
Jasmine Bowles	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Joy Tellis Cooper	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Sabrina Hill	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Deatrice Dee Haney	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Mark Christmas	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not shown	Not shown	Not recorded
Jessie Goree	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Victoria Williams	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Mary Baker	Present	Not shown	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1301230 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district