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Northfield Public School District Board of Education

9 meetings on our record, all from the past year · typical meeting 1 h 37 min · 3,875 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026
Northfield board approves 2026 payable 2027 preliminary levy at maximum authorityPlay 48:51
Newest meeting we have
Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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Also on the board: Jenny Nelson, Board member · Jeff Quinnell, 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 39 minMonday, September 28, 2026Northfield board approves 2026 payable 2027 preliminary levy at maximum authorityEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Corey Butler, Maggie Epstein, Amy Goerwitz, Ben Miller and 1 more
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Board meeting · 1 h 56 minMonday, September 14, 2026Northfield school board approves superintendent's 2026-2027 focus areasChronic absenteeismSpeakers: Claudia Gonzalez-George, Corey Butler, Maggie Epstein, Amy Goerwitz and 2 more
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Board meeting · 1 h 58 minMonday, August 24, 2026Northfield school board approves consent agenda, hears later start times survey updateAI in schoolsReading and test scoresSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Claudia Gonzalez-George, Corey Butler, Maggie Epstein, Amy Goerwitz and 1 more
Play 1:36:04
Board meeting · 1 h 14 minMonday, August 10, 2026Chronic absenteeismSpeakers: Claudia Gonzalez-George, Corey Butler, Maggie Epstein
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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 9 board meetings, May 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat9 board meetings are too few to tell these 6 members apart.
Coverage: about 77% of members’ speaking time named (56%–77%)

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
Claudia Gonzalez-GeorgeChair · runs the meeting, not rankedShare5.7min, at least6 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.8questions asked per meeting, at least
Members · listed by seat
Corey ButlerVice-ChairShare2.1min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.4questions asked per meeting, at least
Maggie EpsteinClerkShare0.9min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least
Amy GoerwitzTreasurerShare2.6min, at least8 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Ben MillerBoard memberShare1.8min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.2questions asked per meeting, at least
Jenny NelsonBoard memberShare2.5min, at least4 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.0questions asked per meeting, at least
Jeff QuinnellBoard memberShare1.2min, at least5 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked2.6questions 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 9 meetings on our record
Clips

What Amy Goerwitz said on Sep 14, 2026

I just wanted to see how, how you were thinking about those and I have a question for Rico. Rico, I, I have a question about how the ALC process kind of affects the credit earned benchmark, because isn't there a sense that the students who aren't earning enough credit get siphoned off by the ALC?Amy GoerwitzTreasurer · Northfield Public School District Board of Education · Sep 14, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:34:53
Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance8%1%–17%
Ceremony and recognition1%0%–4%
Safety and discipline1%0%–4%
Public comment0%0%–23%

    The two readers didn’t agree on 30% 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 9; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Aug 24, 2026, heard from 1.

    1 on Aug 24, 20261 speaker1 speaker0.1 a meeting on average

    Federal district ID 2723880 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district