Franklin City Public Schools School Board

20 meetings on our record, 15 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 3 h 31 min · 1,015 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 1, 2026: Franklin City School Board approves local gifted education plan for 2026 through 2031 Play 8:00
Newest meeting we have: Oct 1, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Wydia Bailey, Board Chair · John Thomas Allsbrook, Board Vice Chair · Dorothy Boone, Board member · Cristina Boone, Board member · Ellis Cofield III, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Work session · 2 h 04 minThursday, October 1, 2026Franklin City School Board approves local gifted education plan for 2026 through 2031Budget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Lamont HIll, Wydia Bailey, Kent Grant, John Thomas Allsbrook and 1 more

Play 8:00

Board meeting · 3 h 30 minThursday, September 17, 2026Franklin City School Board authorizes agreement for interim/acting superintendentPhones in schoolSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Lamont HIll, Kent Grant, John Thomas Allsbrook, Ellis Cofield III

Play 3:26:44

Special meetingMonday, September 7, 2026Speakers: Wydia Bailey

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Work session · 3 h 34 minThursday, August 6, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Lamont HIll, Wydia Bailey, Kent Grant, John Thomas Allsbrook and 1 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 15 board meetings, Dec 18, 2025 – Oct 1, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat15 board meetings are too few to tell these 4 members apart.

Coverage: about 64% of members’ speaking time named (46%–65%)

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

Wydia BaileyBoard Chair · Ward 2 · runs the meeting, not ranked4.8min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart6.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Ellis Cofield IIIBoard member · At-Large0.6min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Lamont HIllBoard member · Ward 10.9min, at least4 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Dorothy BooneBoard member · Ward 3 · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Cristina BooneBoard member · Ward 4 · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Kent GrantBoard member · Ward 52.9min, at least11 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.5questions asked per meeting, at least

John Thomas AllsbrookBoard Vice Chair · Ward 61.5min, at least9 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions 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 20 meetings on our record

Clips

What Wydia Bailey said

I had requested, but I failed to follow up on it myself, the last 2 years of all the credit cards, the purchases for the last 2 years of all the credit cards for the school division.Wydia BaileyBoard Chair · Franklin City Public Schools School BoardWatch the full meeting from 35:03

On the map · Phones in school

February 19, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance13%9%–18%

Ceremony and recognition6%3%–9%

Public comment6%3%–10%

Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

The two readers didn’t agree on 26% 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 20 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 16; 8 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 16, 2026, heard from 5.

5 on Apr 16, 20265 speakers3 speakers1.6 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 15 of the 20 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 1	Sep 17	Sep 7	Aug 6	Jul 28	Jul 16	Jun 4	May 7	Apr 16	Mar 19	Mar 5	Feb 19	Feb 5	Jan 15	Dec 18
Kent Grant	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Wydia Bailey	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
John Thomas Allsbrook	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Lamont HIll	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Dorothy Boone	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Cristina Boone	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Ellis Cofield III	Present	Present	Not shown	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5101410 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district