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David Douglas School District Board of Education

14 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 7 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 3 h 03 min · 8,714 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 22, 2026
School board workshop features dual language program presentationPlay 2:06
Newest meeting we have
Oct 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: José Gamero-Georgeson, Board Chair

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 · 29 minThursday, October 22, 2026School board workshop features dual language program presentation
Play 2:06
Board meeting · 3 h 35 minThursday, September 10, 2026Board approves preparing pension obligation bond resolution ahead of bond saleChronic absenteeismReading and test scoresSpeakers: Althea Ender, Stephanie D. Stephens, Muriel Jordan, Thomas Stephenson and 1 more
Play 1:46:16
Board meeting · 2 h 43 minThursday, August 13, 2026Board approves superintendent evaluation tool, takes up high school start timesAI in schoolsBudget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Stephanie D. Stephens, Sara Epstein, Muriel Jordan, Thomas Stephenson and 1 more
Play 13:25
Board meeting · 3 h 11 minThursday, June 11, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Stephanie D. Stephens, Sara Epstein, Muriel Jordan, Heather Franklin
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Nov 13, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat6 board meetings on our record; we rank members seated for 8.
Coverage: about 77% of members’ speaking time named (52%–78%)

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
José Gamero-GeorgesonBoard Chair · Position 7 · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted
Heather FranklinMember · Position 6 · runs the meeting, not rankedShare6.9min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart6.7questions asked per meeting, at least
Stephanie D. StephensMember · Position 2 · runs the meeting, not rankedShare2.9min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Althea EnderVice Chair · Position 1 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.9min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Sara EpsteinMember · Position 3 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share1.2min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Muriel JordanMember · Position 4 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share1.9min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Thomas StephensonMember · Position 5 · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share2.1min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.8questions 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 14 meetings on our record
Clips

What board members said

I was, um, I know one of our middle schools is not doing the same schedule. Is there any impact on the PE? Are we concerned about meeting PE minutes?Heather FranklinMember · David Douglas School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 1:04:26
I think that we need to get clear about the purpose of this program because essentially what we're asking is for parents in our district who are our employees to pay for an educational experience for our youth that they get college credit for, which doesn't seem like a sustainable model.Stephanie D. StephensMember · David Douglas School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 2:56:45
On the map · Phones in school

April 9, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance14%5%–24%
Ceremony and recognition9%3%–17%
Public comment5%2%–9%
Safety and discipline1%0%–4%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 20% 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 14 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Nov 13, 2025, heard from 9.

    9 on Nov 13, 20259 speakers5 speakers3.2 a meeting on average

    Federal district ID 4103940 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district