Kent County Public Schools Board of Education

12 meetings on our record, 11 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 3 h 08 min · 1,732 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 14, 2026: Kent County school board approves speech therapy contract, hears middle school cost update Play 2:26:38
Newest meeting we have: Sep 14, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Trish McGee, President · Aretha Dorsey, Board member · Laura McKenzie, Vice President · John Queen, Board member · Frank Rhodes, 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 · 2 h 44 minMonday, September 14, 2026Kent County school board approves speech therapy contract, hears middle school cost updateReading and test scoresSpeakers: Trish McGee, Laura McKenzie, Aretha Dorsey, Frank Rhodes and 1 more

Play 2:26:38

Board meeting · 3 h 44 minMonday, July 13, 2026Kent County school board approves cell phone policy and special needs bus purchaseChronic absenteeismAI in schoolsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Trish McGee, Laura McKenzie, Aretha Dorsey, John Queen

Play 1:32:49

Board meeting · 1 h 32 minMonday, June 15, 2026Kent County school board reviews proposed changes to Citizens Advisory CommitteeSpeakers: Laura McKenzie, John Queen

Play 54:33

Board meeting · 3 h 38 minMonday, June 8, 2026Chronic absenteeismBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentPhones in schoolSpeakers: Trish McGee, Laura McKenzie, Aretha Dorsey, John Queen

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 11 board meetings, Jan 12, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat1 members were seated for fewer than 8 board meetings on our record, leaving 3 to compare; we rank at 4.

Coverage: about 71% of members’ speaking time named (49%–87%)

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

Trish McGeePresident · runs the meeting, not ranked13.8min, at least8 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart13.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Aretha DorseyBoard member2.7min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions asked per meeting, at least

Laura McKenzieVice President4.7min, at least8 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.9questions asked per meeting, at least

John QueenBoard member4.7min, at least8 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked12.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Frank RhodesBoard member · We could name only 14% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.9min, at least7 of 11meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.1questions 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 12 meetings on our record

Clips

What Trish McGee said on Mar 9, 2026

I, I understand obviously how important literacy is, but what if you're a student who's a genius in math but struggles in reading for any number of reasons. How do you address that?Trish McGeePresident · Kent County Public Schools Board of Education · Mar 9, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:48:17

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 6 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 finance19%8%–32%

Ceremony and recognition4%2%–7%

Safety and discipline2%0%–6%

Public comment0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 16% 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 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 4 had at least one. The busiest, on Apr 27, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Apr 27, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.5 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 2400450 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district