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Kenilworth Borough School District Board of Education

14 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 55 min · 1,453 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026
Kenilworth board shortens public comment time from 5 minutes to 3 minutesPlay 36:26
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Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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On the board: Michelle Panichi, President · Robert Beiner, Board member · Suzanne Crincoli, Board member · Gregg F. David, Board member · Ryan Haberthur, Vice President · Joseph J. Hrdina, Board member · Anthony Laudati, Board member · Alison Tears, Board member · Nancy Zimmerman, 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
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What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 51 minMonday, September 14, 2026Kenilworth board shortens public comment time from 5 minutes to 3 minutesPhones in schoolSpeakers: Michelle Panichi, Gregg F. David, Anthony Laudati, Alison Tears and 1 more
Play 36:26
Board meeting · 1 h 08 minMonday, August 24, 2026Kenilworth school board approves 48 resolutions in roll call voteChronic absenteeismEnrollmentPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Michelle Panichi, Robert Beiner, Gregg F. David, Alison Tears
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Board meeting · 1 h 16 minMonday, June 8, 2026Kenilworth school board approves 30 resolutions, including business administrator appointmentSpeakers: Gregg F. David, Anthony Laudati
Play 56:30
Board meeting · 1 h 05 minMonday, May 11, 2026Speakers: Michelle Panichi, Gregg F. David, Anthony Laudati
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, Nov 10, 2025 – Sep 14, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 42% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.
Coverage: about 42% of members’ speaking time named (24%–71%)

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
Michelle PanichiPresident · runs the meeting, not rankedShare1.8min, at least7 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Robert BeinerBoard member · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share1.3min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Suzanne CrincoliBoard member · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.2min, at least1 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Gregg F. DavidBoard memberShare1.5min, at least8 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.1questions asked per meeting, at least
Ryan HaberthurVice President · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 8Share0.2min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Joseph J. HrdinaBoard member · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted
Anthony LaudatiBoard memberShare1.8min, at least9 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Alison TearsBoard member · We could name only 14% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.6min, at least5 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Nancy ZimmermanBoard member · We could name only 7% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share0.3min, at least2 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.0questions 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 14 meetings on our record
On the map · Phones in school

January 12, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 3 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

Budget and finance20%8%–34%
Ceremony and recognition14%7%–23%
Public comment5%3%–10%
Safety and discipline0%0%–2%

    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 14 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 12; 7 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 13, 2026, heard from 3.

    3 on Apr 13, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.9 a meeting on average
    Attendance

    The roll call at 12 of the 14 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

    Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
    MemberSep 14Aug 24Jun 8May 11Apr 29Apr 13Mar 25Mar 9Feb 9Jan 12Jan 5Nov 10
    Anthony LaudatiPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresent
    Gregg F. DavidPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recorded
    Michelle PanichiPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Ryan HaberthurPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentNot recordedPresent
    Robert BeinerPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Suzanne CrincoliPresentPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Joseph J. HrdinaPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedPresentPresentPresentPresentPresent
    Alison TearsPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentPresentNot recorded
    Nancy ZimmermanPresentNot recordedPresentPresentNot recordedPresentNot recordedNot recordedPresentPresentNot recordedPresent

    PresentNot shownNot recorded

    Federal district ID 3407920 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district