Isle of Wight County School Board

20 meetings on our record, 14 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 3 h 03 min · 5,588 students · 4 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 17, 2026: Isle of Wight school board hears update on testing at proposed elementary school site Play 3:12:36
Newest meeting we have: Sep 17, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Stella Bradshaw, Board member · Jarad Ford, Board member · Jason Maresh, Board member · Mark Wooster, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 4 h 46 minThursday, September 17, 2026Isle of Wight school board hears update on testing at proposed elementary school siteReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Jarad Ford, Jason Maresh, Stella Bradshaw

Play 3:12:36

Board meeting · 1 h 37 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Isle of Wight school board interviews 4 applicants for District 1 seatSpeakers: Jarad Ford, Jason Maresh, Mark Wooster, Stella Bradshaw

Play 1:46

Board meeting · 3 h 35 minThursday, May 14, 2026Speakers: Jarad Ford, Jason Maresh, Mark Wooster

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Special meetingThursday, April 23, 2026

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Nov 13, 2025 – Sep 17, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 40% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 40% of members’ speaking time named (25%–79%)

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

Jarad FordBoard member · District 3, formerly the Hardy district · runs the meeting, not ranked5.6min, at least9 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Jason MareshBoard member · District 4, formerly the Windsor district · runs the meeting, not ranked10.8min, at least11 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart2.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Mark WoosterBoard member · District 2, formerly the Newport district · We could name only 11% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%1.7min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Stella BradshawBoard member · District 5, formerly the Carrsville district · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions 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 board members said

A couple of years ago, we did not have such a positive audit. And what you're saying tonight is we effectively got a clean audit and all errors were corrected.Jason MareshBoard member · Isle of Wight County School Board · Sep 17, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:03:37

Would it be in our best interest that, um, in order for a child to progress or to take advantage of the Advanced Accelerated Mathematics policy, that it be a recommend— that there has to be a recommendation from the teacher?Jarad FordBoard member · Isle of Wight County School BoardWatch the full meeting from 2:51:11
You, you ladies presented this last month and it got on the newspaper and it got on social media, and as much as I despise banter on social media, there were a lot of people that were losing their minds because kids were going to go hungry. …Jason MareshBoard member · Isle of Wight County School BoardWatch the full meeting from 2:32:18

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%4%–21%

Public comment9%5%–14%

Ceremony and recognition8%5%–11%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 19% 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 15; 9 had at least one. The busiest, on Feb 12, 2026, heard from 13.

13 on Feb 12, 202613 speakers7 speakers3 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 13 of the 20 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 17	Aug 18	May 14	Apr 23	Apr 2	Mar 12	Mar 5	Mar 3	Feb 26	Feb 12	Feb 3	Jan 15	Dec 11	Nov 13
Jason Maresh	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Mark Wooster	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Jarad Ford	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Stella Bradshaw	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5102010 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district