Issaquah School District Board of Directors

19 meetings on our record, 15 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 40 min · 19,452 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 8, 2026: Issaquah school board accepts equity monitoring report Play 2:02:48
Next · Thursday, November 12, 2026: 6:00 PM · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Oct 8, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: A.J. Taylor, Board President

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 3 h 37 minThursday, October 8, 2026Issaquah school board accepts equity monitoring reportChronic absenteeismAI in schoolsEnrollmentSpeakers: A.J. Taylor, Natalie Anderson, Harlan Gallinger, Sydne Mullings and 1 more

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Board meeting · 2 h 46 minThursday, September 24, 2026Issaquah School Board accepts monitoring report on treatment of peopleAI in schoolsEnrollmentSpeakers: A.J. Taylor, Natalie Anderson, Harlan Gallinger, Sydne Mullings and 1 more

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Board meeting · 2 h 18 minThursday, September 10, 2026AI in schoolsReading and test scoresSpeakers: A.J. Taylor, Harlan Gallinger, Sydne Mullings

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Board meeting · 2 h 40 minThursday, August 27, 2026EnrollmentSpeakers: A.J. Taylor, Natalie Anderson, Harlan Gallinger, Sydne Mullings and 1 more

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Who does the talking

No one member stands apart on the Issaquah School District board: 3 of the 4 members we rank could rank first

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 15 board meetings, Dec 11, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEarly readLess of this board's speech is named so far, so its ranks are wider. Each rank is a 90% range across 15 resampled meetings, so "2nd–4th" means the data can't place them more exactly. The ranges may widen as we name more of the speech.

Coverage: about 66% of members’ speaking time named (53%–74%)

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

—A.J. TaylorBoard President · District #1 · runs the meeting, not ranked14.7min, at least13 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart4.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · ranked by minutes per meeting

1st–3rdSydne MullingsDirector · District #412.9min, at least13 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated37%of the members’ talking · 15%–58%3.8questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–4thMatt CoyneDirector · District #58.7min, at least13 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated25%of the members’ talking · 14%–41%3.9questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–4thHarlan GallingerDirector · District #36.3min, at least11 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated18%of the members’ talking · 10%–35%3.2questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–4thNatalie AndersonDirector · District #26.1min, at least14 of 15meetings heard, of those while seated18%of the members’ talking · 10%–35%3.4questions 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 · line = our margin: members whose lines overlap may sit in either order · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

Next meetingThursday, November 12, 20266:00 PMSchool Board MeetingThe district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 19 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

June 25, 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.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance10%6%–17%

Public comment5%3%–8%

Safety and discipline1%0%–5%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–3%

The two readers didn’t agree on 22% 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 19 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 16; 14 had at least one. The busiest, on Jan 29, 2026, heard from 15.

15 on Jan 29, 202615 speakers8 speakers5.1 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 19 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 8	Sep 24	Sep 10	Aug 27	Aug 13	Jun 25	May 28	May 7	Apr 9	Mar 26	Mar 11	Feb 12	Jan 29	Jan 15	Dec 11
Sydne Mullings	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5303750 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district