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Montgomery County School Board

10 meetings on our record, 9 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 3 h 09 min · 9,534 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 6, 2026
School board approves Bullying Prevention Month resolution, hears staffing and calendar updatesPlay 1:25:16
Newest meeting we have
Oct 6, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Laura Purcell, Chair · Jamie Bond, Board member · Penny Franklin, Board member · Dana M. Partin, Board member · Derek Rountree, Vice-Chair

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 · 3 h 14 minTuesday, October 6, 2026School board approves Bullying Prevention Month resolution, hears staffing and calendar updatesReading and test scoresSpeakers: Penny Franklin, Dana M. Partin, Jamie Bond, Derek Rountree and 2 more
Play 1:25:16
Board meeting · 2 h 47 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Montgomery County school board approves amended resolution to protect public school fundingReading and test scoresSpeakers: Matthew Roberts, Penny Franklin, Dana M. Partin, Jamie Bond and 2 more
Play 1:56:18
Board meeting · 3 h 25 minTuesday, September 1, 2026Safety, weapons and policeVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Matthew Roberts, Penny Franklin, Dana M. Partin, Jamie Bond and 2 more
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Board meeting · 2 h 17 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Matthew Roberts, Dana M. Partin, Jamie Bond, Derek Rountree and 1 more
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, Feb 17, 2026 – Oct 6, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 59% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.
Coverage: about 59% of members’ speaking time named (48%–80%)

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
Laura PurcellChair · District F · runs the meeting, not rankedShare14.8min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.8questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Matthew RobertsBoard member · District A · We could name only 27% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%Share2.8min, at least7 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.7questions asked per meeting, at least
Penny FranklinBoard member · District BShare6.3min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Dana M. PartinBoard member · District CShare5.2min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Jamie BondBoard member · District DShare6.3min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Derek RountreeVice-Chair · District EShare6.8min, at least9 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.6questions asked per meeting, at least
Ed GitreBoard member · District GShare10.3min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked10.8questions 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 10 meetings on our record
Clips

What Ed Gitre said on Mar 3, 2026

One another question I had is I I know that you did survey teachers. Is this the only question that you asked them, or were there other questions that you asked them? Did you ask them? Do you think that having a shorter, having an earlier start time would help us with our SOL pass rates?Ed GitreBoard member · Montgomery County School Board · Mar 3, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:21:17
On the map · Phones in school

April 21, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance6%4%–12%
Ceremony and recognition6%1%–12%
Safety and discipline3%0%–9%
Public comment3%1%–6%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 19% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 8 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 1, 2026, heard from 6.

    6 on Sep 1, 20266 speakers3 speakers2.5 a meeting on average

    Federal district ID 5102520 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district