DeKalb County Central United School District board

15 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 13 with unconfirmed dates · 3,578 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 15, 2026: DeKalb Central board approves ambassadors program, holds hearing on 2027 budget Play 25:18
Newest meeting we have: Sep 15, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Valerie Armstrong, President · Lauren Anderson, Vice President · Tony Baker, Vice President · Tony Oneal, Vice President · Katie Pfister, Secretary

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 33 minTuesday, September 15, 2026DeKalb Central board approves ambassadors program, holds hearing on 2027 budgetBudget cuts and layoffsSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Katie Pfister, Tony Baker

Play 25:18

Board meeting · 1 h 07 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Reading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Katie Pfister, Tony Oneal

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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 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingValerie ArmstrongPresident · Union/Jackson · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by nameLauren AndersonVice President · At Large—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Tony BakerVice President · Grant/Richland1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Tony OnealVice President · Fairfield/Smithfield1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Katie PfisterSecretary · Auburn/Union2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 15 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance19%7%–32%

Ceremony and recognition6%1%–11%

Public comment1%0%–5%

Safety and discipline1%0%–3%

The two readers didn’t agree on 37% 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 15 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 4 had at least one.

Attendance

The roll call at 2 of the 15 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 15	Aug 18
Valerie Armstrong	Present	Present
Katie Pfister	Present	Not recorded
Tony Baker	Present	Present
Tony Oneal	Present	Present
Lauren Anderson	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1801590 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district