Darien School District Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 1 h 09 min · 4,681 students · 8 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Darien board unanimously approves consent agenda with budget transfers and choir trip Play 41:29
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Robin Nelson, Chairperson · David A. Brown, Board Member · Jonathan Dunn, Board Member · Greg D. Grambling, Vice Chairperson · Kadiatu M. Lublin, Secretary · Dennis J. Maroney, Board Member · William Vredenburgh, Board Member · Joanna Walsh, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 47 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Darien board unanimously approves consent agenda with budget transfers and choir tripReading and test scoresSpeakers: Greg D. Grambling, Jonathan Dunn, Dennis J. Maroney, Joanna Walsh

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Special meeting · 28 minThursday, September 17, 2026Speakers: Greg D. Grambling, Jonathan Dunn, Joanna Walsh

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Board meeting · 59 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Speakers: Greg D. Grambling, Dennis J. Maroney, William Vredenburgh

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Board meeting · 55 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Speakers: Kadiatu M. Lublin, David A. Brown, William Vredenburgh, Joanna Walsh

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 8 board meetings, May 12, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatOur roster lists 8 of the 9 members on the district's own page.

Coverage not measured on whole meetings yet

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

Robin NelsonChairperson · runs the meeting, not ranked0.5min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

David A. BrownBoard Member0.5min, at least5 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Jonathan DunnBoard Member · We could name only 10% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.1min, at least3 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Greg D. GramblingVice Chairperson2.4min, at least6 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Kadiatu M. LublinSecretary1.9min, at least5 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Dennis J. MaroneyBoard Member · We could name only 29% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.5min, at least3 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions asked per meeting, at least

William VredenburghBoard Member1.5min, at least6 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Joanna WalshBoard Member1.4min, at least6 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.1questions 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

All 10 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

What is the likelihood that we— let's say we decide to make Priority 1 changes only— won't we just be getting ourselves to the point where we'll get stuck and needing to make renovations on top of the renovations right away to do the Priority 2?Joanna WalshBoard Member · Darien School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 58:52

Just, I know we had that big storm last week. Can you guys just give a, I don't know, maybe this is like A preview for what's gonna happen next month in terms of how, what happened, what the, how we're dealing with that. I know there were some vehicles lost, things like that. Like, are we dealing without insurance?Greg D. GramblingVice Chairperson · Darien School District Board of Education · Sep 17, 2026Watch the full meeting from 16:40

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition2%0%–9%

Budget and finance1%0%–4%

Public comment1%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–23%

The two readers didn’t agree on 16% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Jun 23, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Jun 23, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.3 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 0901050 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district