Greenwich School District Board of Education

26 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 23 with unconfirmed dates · 8,589 students · 8 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 24, 2026: Greenwich school board approves 2027-2028 calendar after moving professional development day Play 2:05:51
Newest meeting we have: Sep 24, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Sophie Koven, Acting Chair · Paul Cappiali, Board member · Bob Chaney, Board member · Jeffrey Csoka, Board member · Karen Hirsh, Board member · Jonathan Katz, Board member · Karen Krause, Secretary

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Special meeting · 2 h 14 minThursday, September 24, 2026Greenwich school board approves 2027-2028 calendar after moving professional development dayPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Paul Cappiali

Play 2:05:51

Special meeting · 48 minMonday, August 17, 2026Speakers: Karen Hirsh

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Committee meeting · 1 h 08 minWednesday, June 3, 2026Speakers: Veronica Chiavaroli

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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 meetingSophie KovenActing Chair · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings

Members · listed by namePaul CappialiBoard member3meetings where we identified their voice2clipsnamed at 3 meetings · 2 clips Bob ChaneyBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Veronica ChiavaroliBoard member1meeting where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 1 meeting Jeffrey CsokaBoard member1meeting where a checked clip names them1clipnamed at 1 meeting · 1 clip Karen HirshBoard member1meeting where a checked clip names them1clipnamed at 1 meeting · 1 clip Jonathan KatzBoard member1meeting where a checked clip names them2clipsnamed at 1 meeting · 2 clips Karen KrauseSecretary2meetings where a checked clip names them2clipsnamed at 2 meetings · 2 clips

Meetings on our record

All 26 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

We need to make exceptions. On the pro side, significant reduction in distraction. We get the most out of our ed time in the classroom. 2, reducing bullying, including kids being filmed against their will and having that posted on social media. It's absolutely critical that school is a safe environment for everyone.Karen KrauseSecretary · Greenwich School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 2:43:22

Just real quick, uh, the GHS reading screener— how are parents notified and when are they notified of those results?Jeffrey CsokaBoard member · Greenwich School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 14:15
There's $45, $46 million in the Riverside School budget. …Paul CappialiBoard member · Greenwich School District Board of Education · Sep 24, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:17:51
One, how adequately is our current pool of substitutes addressing the absentee rates that we're running right now? Do we have enough subs?Karen KrauseSecretary · Greenwich School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 1:40:04
One thing that absolutely drives me nuts hiring, you know, young people out of high school and college is their absolute inability to navigate Excel and large datasets.Jonathan KatzBoard member · Greenwich School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 1:18:50
When we are talking about negotiating a GEA contract that allows for increased teacher collaboration and development, we're saying we checked that box, we got that done.Paul CappialiBoard member · Greenwich School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 1:52:32

On the map · Phones in school

September 24, 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 finance3%0%–9%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Public comment0%0%–1%

Safety and discipline0%0%–23%

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 26 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on Jun 3, 2026, heard from 4.

4 on Jun 3, 20264 speakers2 speakers0.5 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 0901710 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district