Osseo Public School District School Board

14 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 2 h 08 min · 20,776 students · 6 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 20, 2026: Osseo school board names new Brooklyn Park site Crestview Center for Learning Play 29:25
Newest meeting we have: Oct 20, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Tanya Prince, Chair · Thomas Brooks, Vice Chair · Kelsey Dawson, Director · Erica Foster, Director · Sarah Mitchell, Treasurer · Keith Tate, Clerk

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 · 40 minTuesday, October 20, 2026Osseo school board names new Brooklyn Park site Crestview Center for LearningSpeakers: Tanya Prince, Thomas Brooks, Sarah Mitchell, Keith Tate and 1 more

Play 29:25

Work session · 1 h 39 minTuesday, October 6, 2026School board reviews budget paths, enrollment changes and Crestview plans at work sessionBudget cuts and layoffsSpeakers: Tanya Prince, Thomas Brooks, Kelsey Dawson, Erica Foster

Play 2:00

Board meeting · 1 h 08 minTuesday, August 25, 2026Osseo school board authorizes tax abatement bonds for parking lot improvementsChronic absenteeismSpeakers: Tanya Prince, Sarah Mitchell, Erica Foster

Play 38:44

Work session · 2 h 42 minTuesday, June 9, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Tanya Prince, Thomas Brooks, Erica Foster

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Nov 11, 2025 – Oct 20, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seat3 members can be compared fairly; we rank at 4.

Coverage: about 68% of members’ speaking time named (46%–94%)

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

Tanya PrinceChair · At-Large · runs the meeting, not ranked5.8min, at least7 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart3.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Thomas BrooksVice Chair · At-Large3.6min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Kelsey DawsonDirector · At-Large2.8min, at least6 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked3.2questions asked per meeting, at least

Erica FosterDirector · At-Large3.2min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked5.8questions asked per meeting, at least

Sarah MitchellTreasurer · At-Large · We could name only 9% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least3 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Keith TateClerk · At-Large · We could name only 8% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.3min, at least2 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions 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 14 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

June 9, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%5%–18%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–2%

Safety and discipline0%0%–21%

Public comment0%0%–21%

The two readers didn’t agree on 25% 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 14 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 10; 0 had at least one.

1 speaker1 speaker0 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 14 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 20	Oct 6	Aug 25	Jun 9	Apr 7	Mar 10	Feb 10	Jan 6	Dec 9	Nov 11
Thomas Brooks	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Tanya Prince	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Erica Foster	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Keith Tate	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Kelsey Dawson	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded
Sarah Mitchell	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 2725200 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district