Lorain City School District Board of Education

24 meetings on our record, 12 of them from the past year and 12 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 1 h 05 min · 6,058 students · 2 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026: Lorain board considers accepting retired police dog trained to detect firearms Play 2:18:34
Newest meeting we have: Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Courtney Nazario, BOARD PRESIDENT · Diamaris Rosario, Vice PRESIDENT

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 2 h 23 minMonday, September 28, 2026Lorain board considers accepting retired police dog trained to detect firearmsSafety, weapons and police

Play 2:18:34

Board meeting · 1 h 02 minMonday, September 14, 2026Lorain staff say district will receive 2.5-star state report card, best since 2011Chronic absenteeismReading and test scoresSpeakers: Courtney Nazario

Play 10:34

Board meeting · 1 h 09 minMonday, August 24, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Courtney Nazario, Diamaris Rosario

Watch

Board meeting · 42 minMonday, August 10, 2026Chronic absenteeismReading and test scores

Watch

The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 12 board meetings, Feb 26, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatOur roster lists 2 of the 5 members on the district's own page.

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

Courtney NazarioBOARD PRESIDENT · runs the meeting, not ranked0.7min, at least4 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Diamaris RosarioVice PRESIDENT · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least1 of 5meetings 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 24 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment41%25%–55%

Ceremony and recognition8%3%–15%

Budget and finance2%0%–6%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 28% 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 24 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 13 had at least one. The busiest, on Feb 26, 2026, heard from 24.

24 on Feb 26, 202624 speakers12 speakers4.9 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 11 of the 24 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 28	Sep 14	Aug 24	Aug 10	Jul 30	Jun 29	Jun 15	May 26	May 11	Apr 13	Mar 23	Feb 26
Courtney Nazario	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Diamaris Rosario	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3904426 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district