East Lansing School District Board of Education

11 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · 3,713 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Feb 9, 2026: Board meeting, 22 min
Newest meeting we have: Feb 9, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Elizabeth Lyons, Board of Education President · Terah Chambers, Board of Education Trustee · Kath Edsall, Board of Education Treasurer · Tali Faris-Hylen, Board of Education Vice President · Chris Martin, Board of Education Secretary · Estrella Torrez, Board of Education Trustee · Abbie Tykocki, Board of Education Trustee

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 22 minMonday, February 9, 2026Phones in schoolSpeakers: Tali Faris-Hylen, Chris Martin, Kath Edsall, Terah Chambers

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Board meeting · 28 minMonday, January 26, 2026Speakers: Tali Faris-Hylen, Chris Martin, Kath Edsall, Terah Chambers and 1 more

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Board meeting · 26 minMonday, January 12, 2026Speakers: Tali Faris-Hylen, Chris Martin, Kath Edsall, Estrella Torrez

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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 3 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingElizabeth LyonsBoard of Education President · shown, not ranked1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting

Members · listed by nameTerah ChambersBoard of Education Trustee4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Kath EdsallBoard of Education Treasurer4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings Tali Faris-HylenBoard of Education Vice President6meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 6 meetings Chris MartinBoard of Education Secretary6meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 6 meetings Estrella TorrezBoard of Education Trustee1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting Abbie TykockiBoard of Education Trustee4meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 4 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 11 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

February 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 finance15%0%–31%

Public comment1%0%–5%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–29%

The two readers didn’t agree on 30% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 4 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0.6 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 3 of the 11 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Feb 9	Jan 26	Jan 12
Elizabeth Lyons	Present	Present	Present
Chris Martin	Present	Present	Present
Tali Faris-Hylen	Present	Present	Present
Estrella Torrez	Present	Present	Not recorded
Kath Edsall	Present	Present	Present
Terah Chambers	Present	Present	Present
Abbie Tykocki	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2612600 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district