Newark Unified School District board

21 meetings on our record, 1 of them from the past year and 20 with unconfirmed dates · 4,828 students · 4 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 15, 2026: Newark school board hears student data report and approves financial report Play 1:52:48
Newest meeting we have: Sep 15, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Austin Block, Board member · Aiden Hill, Board member · Katherine Jones, Board member · Gabriel Anguiano Jr., Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 3 h 01 minTuesday, September 15, 2026Newark school board hears student data report and approves financial reportChronic absenteeismBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scores

Play 1:52:48

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.

Members · listed by nameAustin BlockBoard member3meetings where we identified their voice4clipsnamed at 3 meetings · 4 clips Aiden HillBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Katherine JonesBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Gabriel Anguiano Jr.Board member3meetings where we identified their voice2clipsnamed at 3 meetings · 2 clips

Meetings on our record

All 21 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

Historically, do we have an estimate about how many additional people enroll past the beginning of May, like from now? Through the start of the school year, how many more we could reasonably expect as well?Austin BlockBoard member · Newark Unified School District boardWatch the full meeting from 2:24:35

I was curious if we could just get regular updates about new enrollees for next year, just so we can get a sense of, like, what, you know, what our numbers are looking like going into next year.Austin BlockBoard member · Newark Unified School District boardWatch the full meeting from 2:54:45
In the previous slide, I believe it's the third to last slide, 190 ELL students have not been reclassified What type of intervention or support are we additionally giving these particular students and focus? …Gabriel Anguiano Jr.Board member · Newark Unified School District boardWatch the full meeting from 2:33:55
With the online registration, the process, how are we following up with families that do not have the completed registration? …Gabriel Anguiano Jr.Board member · Newark Unified School District boardWatch the full meeting from 2:18:19

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%4%–18%

Public comment4%2%–7%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–5%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 24% 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 21 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 9; 9 had at least one.

Federal district ID 0627060 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district