Janesville School District Board of Education

18 meetings on our record, 11 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 55 min · 9,414 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Janesville school board approves next superintendent, accepts current superintendent's retirement Play 28:02
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Lisa Hurda, Board Commissioner, President · Greg Ardrey, School Board Commissioner, Treasurer · Karl Dommershausen, School Board Commissioner · Michelle Haworth, Board Commissioner · Karen Hirsch, School Board Commissioner · Tyra Johnson, School Board Commissioner · Colton Measner, School Board Commissioner · Elizabeth Paull, Board Commissioner, Vice President · Julie Richardson, School Board Commissioner, Clerk

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 · 55 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Janesville school board approves next superintendent, accepts current superintendent's retirementReading and test scoresSpeakers: Greg Ardrey, Elizabeth Paull, Julie Richardson, Michelle Haworth and 1 more

Play 28:02

Board meeting · 44 minTuesday, September 8, 2026Reading and test scoresSpeakers: Karl Dommershausen, Tyra Johnson

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Board meeting · 35 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Speakers: Greg Ardrey

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Board meeting · 44 minTuesday, July 14, 2026Speakers: Elizabeth Paull, Julie Richardson, Colton Measner

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Nov 11, 2025 – Sep 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatHow much of the members' speech we name isn't measured here yet.

Coverage not measured on whole meetings yet

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

Lisa HurdaBoard Commissioner, President · runs the meeting, not ranked—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—runs the meeting, counted apart—no question counted

Members · listed by seat

Greg ArdreySchool Board Commissioner, Treasurer1.3min, at least4 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Karl DommershausenSchool Board Commissioner0.5min, at least2 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Michelle HaworthBoard Commissioner · We could name only 18% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least3 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Karen HirschSchool Board Commissioner · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked—no question counted

Tyra JohnsonSchool Board Commissioner0.7min, at least6 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Colton MeasnerSchool Board Commissioner · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.3min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Elizabeth PaullBoard Commissioner, Vice President1.9min, at least4 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Julie RichardsonSchool Board Commissioner, Clerk · We could name only 17% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.2min, at least4 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions 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

All 18 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition15%9%–24%

Budget and finance7%1%–17%

Public comment0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–17%

The two readers didn’t agree on 34% 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 18 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 13; 5 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0.4 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 3 of the 18 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 22	Sep 8	Aug 25	Jul 14	Apr 28	Apr 14	Feb 24	Feb 10	Jan 13	Dec 9	Nov 11
Karl Dommershausen	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Lisa Hurda	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Tyra Johnson	Not shown	Present	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Colton Measner	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Elizabeth Paull	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Julie Richardson	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Michelle Haworth	Present	Not shown	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Karen Hirsch	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Greg Ardrey	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 5507020 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district