Lake Forest School District Board of Education

9 meetings on our record, 1 of them from the past year and 8 with unconfirmed dates · 3,679 students · 5 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 13, 2026: Lake Forest board approves policy updates and certificate of necessity application Play 54:54
Newest meeting we have: Aug 13, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Sarah Starkey, Board President · Jordan McCloskey, Board Vice President · Amber Rash, Board Member · Betty A. Wyatt, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 06 minThursday, August 13, 2026Lake Forest board approves policy updates and certificate of necessity applicationBudget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Sarah Starkey, Amber Rash, James L. Rau

Play 54:54

The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 1 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingSarah StarkeyBoard President · shown, not ranked2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Members · listed by nameJordan McCloskeyBoard Vice President2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Amber RashBoard Member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting James L. RauBoard Member5meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 5 meetings Betty A. WyattBoard Member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 9 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%0%–26%

Ceremony and recognition10%3%–20%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

Public comment0%0%–26%

The two readers didn’t agree on 29% 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 9 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 0 had at least one.

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 9 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Aug 13
James L. Rau	Present
Sarah Starkey	Present
Jordan McCloskey	Present
Betty A. Wyatt	Present
Amber Rash	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1000790 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district