Jefferson County School District School Board

19 meetings on our record, 17 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 59 min · 6,854 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 1, 2026: School board unanimously changes Rule 2B and Rule 3B to provide for invocation Play 56:54
Newest meeting we have: Oct 1, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Mark Finchum, Board member · Michelle Jinnette, Board member · Jim Satterfield, Board member

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 · 1 h 31 minThursday, October 1, 2026School board unanimously changes Rule 2B and Rule 3B to provide for invocationSpeakers: Mark Finchum, Paul Hardy, Doug Ibbetson, Danny Martin and 2 more

Play 56:54

Work session · 1 h 52 minMonday, September 28, 2026Jefferson County school board hears Jefferson Elementary project bid timelineReading and test scoresSpeakers: Mark Finchum, Paul Hardy, Doug Ibbetson, Danny Martin and 1 more

Play 1:03:36

Board meeting · 1 h 10 minThursday, September 3, 2026Speakers: Mark Finchum, Paul Hardy, Danny Martin, Dawn Mayer and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 22 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Doug Ibbetson

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 17 board meetings, Nov 6, 2025 – Oct 1, 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

Doug IbbetsonBoard member · 1st District: PES, DES, MMS · runs the meeting, not ranked5.6min, at least15 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.6questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Michelle JinnetteBoard member · 1st District: PES, DES, MMS · We could name only 0% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least0 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Paul HardyBoard member · 2nd District: NMES, RSS1.3min, at least10 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Danny MartinBoard member · 2nd District: NMES, RSS · We could name only 5% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.1min, at least5 of 17meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Mark FinchumBoard member · 3rd District: JES, JMS, TES, MHES · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.0min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Jim SatterfieldBoard member · 3rd District: JES, JMS, TES, MHES · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Dawn MayerBoard member · 4th District: WPS · We could name only 20% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least4 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions 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 19 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

November 6, 2025

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings. 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

Public comment4%2%–8%

Budget and finance4%2%–8%

Ceremony and recognition3%1%–7%

Safety and discipline1%0%–3%

The two readers didn’t agree on 32% 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 18; 6 had at least one. The busiest, on Nov 24, 2025, heard from 4.

4 on Nov 24, 20254 speakers2 speakers0.9 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 4702100 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district