Paulding County Board of Education

11 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 2 h 15 min · 31,831 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 22, 2026: Paulding County school board approves consent agenda and personnel report Play 1:47:32
Newest meeting we have: Sep 22, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Nicholas Chester, Board member · Adam Clayton, Vice Chair · Deborah Collett, Board member · Trudy Sowar, 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 54 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Paulding County school board approves consent agenda and personnel reportSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Nicholas Chester

Play 1:47:32

Board meeting · 2 h 19 minTuesday, August 18, 2026Paulding County school board approves information-sharing agreement with sheriff, county governmentReading and test scores

Play 2:09:41

Board meeting · 2 h 44 minTuesday, August 4, 2026Speakers: Theresa Lyons, Dan Nolan

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Board meeting · 1 h 59 minTuesday, July 7, 2026Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Jeff Fuller

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, Mar 10, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatHow much of the members' speech we name isn't measured here yet.

Coverage not measured on whole meetings yet

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

Jeff FullerChair · At-Large · runs the meeting, not ranked1.5min, at least3 of 9meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Theresa LyonsBoard member · District 10.6min, at least4 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.4questions asked per meeting, at least

Nicholas ChesterBoard member · District 21.2min, at least4 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked1.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Adam ClaytonVice Chair · District 3 · Seated for 3 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least1 of 3meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Deborah CollettBoard member · District 4 · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.4min, at least1 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Trudy SowarBoard member · District 5 · We could name only 5% of the speech they may have given; we rank at 30%0.0min, at least2 of 8meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Dan NolanBoard member · District 60.5min, at least3 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.3questions 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 11 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

June 11, 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

Ceremony and recognition20%9%–33%

Budget and finance9%4%–17%

Safety and discipline3%0%–8%

Public comment2%0%–7%

The two readers didn’t agree on 27% 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 11 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 1 had at least one. The busiest, on Mar 24, 2026, heard from 3.

3 on Mar 24, 20263 speakers2 speakers0.3 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 1304020 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district