Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education

7 meetings on our record, 5 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · 25,950 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026: Indian Prairie board approves 2026-2027 budget with one-time $5.8 million deficit Play 2:19
Next · Wednesday, November 4, 2026: 6:00 PM · Crouse Education Center 780 Shoreline Drive Aurora, IL 60504 · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Sep 28, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Catey Genc, Secretary · Natasha Grover, Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 40 minMonday, September 28, 2026Indian Prairie board approves 2026-2027 budget with one-time $5.8 million deficitSpeakers: Laurie Donahue, Allison Fosdick, Susan Demming, Mark Rising and 2 more

Play 2:19

Board meeting · 1 h 21 minMonday, September 14, 2026Indian Prairie board approves consent agenda, reviews annual student behavior dataReading and test scoresSpeakers: Laurie Donahue, Allison Fosdick, Catey Genc, Mark Rising and 2 more

Play 31:08

Board meeting · 1 h 40 minMonday, August 24, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsPhones in schoolSpeakers: Allison Fosdick, Catey Genc, Susan Demming, Mark Rising and 1 more

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 59 minTuesday, August 11, 2026Chronic absenteeismBudget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Laurie Donahue, Allison Fosdick, Susan Demming, Mark Rising and 2 more

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 5 board meetings, May 18, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat5 board meetings on our record; we rank members seated for 8.

Coverage: about 61% of members’ speaking time named (42%–80%)

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

Laurie DonahueBoard President · at-large · runs the meeting, not ranked6.0min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Andrew BernardMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.8min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Susan DemmingMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.5min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Allison FosdickVice President · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 83.4min, at least5 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Catey GencSecretary · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.1min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Natasha GroverMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.1min, at least4 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Mark RisingMember · at-large · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 88.0min, at least5 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.2questions 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

Next meetingWednesday, November 4, 20266:00 PM · Crouse Education Center 780 Shoreline Drive Aurora, IL 60504Notice of Special Board Meeting - Nov 04 2026The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 7 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

There's still punishment, there's still consequences, but there's different tiers of supports in teaching better behavior going forward.Mark RisingMember · Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education · Sep 14, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:14:57
I think the number one thing is that positive connection and making that email or sending that email or giving that phone call home. …Andrew BernardMember · Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education · Aug 11, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:37:56

On the map · Phones in school

August 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 finance14%2%–27%

Ceremony and recognition7%3%–12%

Safety and discipline6%0%–22%

Public comment5%0%–11%

The two readers didn’t agree on 18% 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 7 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 6; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on May 18, 2026, heard from 8.

8 on May 18, 20268 speakers4 speakers2.3 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 5 of the 7 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 28	Sep 14	Aug 24	Aug 11	May 18
Andrew Bernard	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded
Catey Genc	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Laurie Donahue	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Mark Rising	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Allison Fosdick	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Susan Demming	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Natasha Grover	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1741690 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district