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Dearborn Heights School District #7 Board of Education

12 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 06 min · 2,459 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 21, 2026
School board approves Cedar Point trip for physics, anatomy and psychology studentsPlay 6:09
Newest meeting we have
Oct 21, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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On the board: Tawnya Sterlini, President · Wendy Anderson, Trustee · Mary Beth Beltowski, Secretary · Mandy Diroff, Trustee · Alyse Stevanovic, Trustee · Derek Wall, Treasurer · Leslie Windless, 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 · 1 h 21 minWednesday, October 21, 2026School board approves Cedar Point trip for physics, anatomy and psychology studentsSpeakers: Leslie Windless, Mandy Diroff, Wendy Anderson
Play 6:09
Board meeting · 1 h 06 minWednesday, October 7, 2026Board approves state aid borrowing and revised student policiesSpeakers: Leslie Windless, Mary Beth Beltowski, Derek Wall, Mandy Diroff
Play 6:47
Board meeting · 1 h 06 minWednesday, September 16, 2026Board approves elementary, OW Best and Annapolis High School handbooksReading and test scoresSpeakers: Tawnya Sterlini, Leslie Windless, Derek Wall, Alyse Stevanovic
Play 13:32
Board meeting · 23 minWednesday, September 2, 2026
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Jun 10, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 31% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.
Coverage: about 31% of members’ speaking time named (27%–39%)

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
Tawnya SterliniPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare3.7min, at least3 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart8.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Wendy AndersonTrustee · We could name only 5% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.4min, at least2 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.7questions asked per meeting, at least
Mary Beth BeltowskiSecretary · We could name only 4% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.2min, at least2 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.5questions asked per meeting, at least
Mandy DiroffTrustee · We could name only 2% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.1min, at least4 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least
Alyse StevanovicTrustee · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.2min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Derek WallTreasurer · We could name only 14% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.9min, at least6 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.1questions asked per meeting, at least
Leslie WindlessVice PresidentShare5.6min, at least6 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked6.0questions 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
All 12 meetings on our record
Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment6%3%–10%
Budget and finance5%1%–12%
Ceremony and recognition2%0%–5%
Safety and discipline1%0%–3%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 31% 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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 8 had at least one. The busiest, on Jul 8, 2026, heard from 3.

    3 on Jul 8, 20263 speakers2 speakers1 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 9 of the 12 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberOct 21Oct 7Sep 16Sep 2Aug 19Aug 5Jul 22Jul 8Jun 17Jun 10
    Leslie WindlessPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Tawnya SterliniPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Mandy DiroffPresentNot recordedNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Mary Beth BeltowskiNot shownNot recordedNot shownPresentNot shownNot shownPresentNot recordedPresentPresent
    Derek WallPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Wendy AndersonPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresent
    Alyse StevanovicNot shownNot recordedPresentPresentPresentNot shownPresentPresentPresentPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 2611610 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district