Orange County Schools Board of Education

9 meetings on our record, 7 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 3 h 20 min · 7,067 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 18, 2026: Policy committee reviews equity policy and summer legislative policy updates Play 3:43
Newest meeting we have: Sep 18, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Carrie Doyle, Board Chair · Will Atherton, Board Member · Bonnie Hauser, Board Member · Wendy Padilla, Board Vice Chair · Sarah Smylie, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Committee meeting · 2 h 30 minFriday, September 18, 2026Policy committee reviews equity policy and summer legislative policy updatesSpeakers: Wendy Padilla, Anne Purcell, Lori Russell

Play 3:43

Board meeting · 5 h 02 minMonday, September 14, 2026Orange County Schools reports no low-performing schools and 62.3% grade-level proficiencyChronic absenteeismReading and test scoresSpeakers: Carrie Doyle, Wendy Padilla, Will Atherton, Bonnie Hauser and 2 more

Play 3:34:33

Board meeting · 3 h 20 minMonday, August 17, 2026Orange County board hears new elementary school plans and strategic plan final resultsChronic absenteeismEnrollmentSpeakers: Carrie Doyle, Wendy Padilla, Will Atherton, Bonnie Hauser and 2 more

Play 1:51:29

Special meeting · 1 h 15 minMonday, July 20, 2026Speakers: Will Atherton, Sarah Smylie

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Apr 20, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatAbout 44% of members' speaking time here is named; we rank at 60%.

Coverage: about 44% of members’ speaking time named (22%–76%)

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

Carrie DoyleBoard Chair · runs the meeting, not ranked5.5min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Will AthertonBoard Member · runs the meeting, not ranked7.4min, at least6 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Bonnie HauserBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 85.3min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Wendy PadillaBoard Vice Chair · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.7min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Anne PurcellBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.1min, at least3 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Lori RussellBoard Member · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.8min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked10.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Sarah SmylieBoard Member · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.3min, at least4 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.2questions 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 board members said

First, thank you for pointing out to us— not happy about it, but thank you for pointing out that we will be losing probably about 12% of our federal grant funds, about roughly about $160,000.Bonnie HauserBoard Member · Orange County Schools Board of Education · Aug 17, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:45:43

If I recall, one of the reasons our absentee rate went up was because of ICE, because ICE was in town and our Hispanic, the absentee rate of our Hispanic students went up. And we couldn't causally say that definitively, but it coincidentally worked that way.Bonnie HauserBoard Member · Orange County Schools Board of Education · Aug 17, 2026Watch the full meeting from 3:07:03

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Ceremony and recognition10%2%–17%

Budget and finance4%0%–10%

Public comment3%1%–6%

Safety and discipline0%0%–32%

The two readers didn’t agree on 13% 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; 3 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 14, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Sep 14, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.8 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 1 of the 9 meetings on our record: the one where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 18	Sep 14	Aug 17	Jul 20	Jul 13	May 18	Apr 20
Wendy Padilla	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Bonnie Hauser	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Sarah Smylie	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Carrie Doyle	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Lori Russell	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Anne Purcell	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Will Atherton	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3703480 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district