MSD Martinsville Schools Board of Trustees

10 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 43 min · 4,081 students · 1 member on our roster

Latest · Sep 17, 2026: Martinsville school board approves attendance Policy 5200 on 3-1 vote Play 1:08:40
Newest meeting we have: Sep 17, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Luke Jackson, 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 · 1 h 37 minThursday, September 17, 2026Martinsville school board approves attendance Policy 5200 on 3-1 voteChronic absenteeismSpeakers: Luke Jackson

Play 1:08:40

Board meeting · 43 minThursday, August 20, 2026Martinsville school board approves agreement with ISBA to conduct superintendent searchChronic absenteeismReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Luke Jackson

Play 16:19

Board meeting · 22 minThursday, June 18, 2026Martinsville board approves Artesian Springs Eagles name and logo for new elementary schoolPhones in schoolSpeakers: Luke Jackson

Play 15:51

Board meeting · 44 minThursday, May 21, 2026Speakers: Luke Jackson

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 7 board meetings, Feb 19, 2026 – Sep 17, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatOur roster lists 1 of the 5 members on the district's own page.

Coverage: about 61% of members’ speaking time named (37%–88%)

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

Luke JacksonBoard member · District #5 · runs the meeting, not ranked6.2min, at least7 of 7meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.4questions 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

On the map · Phones in school

June 18, 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

Public comment7%2%–13%

Budget and finance6%2%–10%

Ceremony and recognition5%0%–13%

Safety and discipline0%0%–23%

The two readers didn’t agree on 39% 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 9; 5 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 17, 2026, heard from 4.

4 on Sep 17, 20264 speakers2 speakers1.2 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 6 of the 10 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 17	Aug 20	Jun 18	May 21	Apr 16	Mar 19	Feb 19
Luke Jackson	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1806510 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district