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Polk County Schools board

7 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 5 with unconfirmed dates · 2,156 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Aug 10, 2026
Polk County board sets out-of-district tuition at $3,363 per childPlay 31:26
Newest meeting we have
Aug 10, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)
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On the board: Mike Ashworth, Chair · Lucinda T. Allen, Board member · Rick N. Covil, Vice Chair · Danielle Gibbs, Board member · Judy N. Jackson, Board member · Sherry H. Page, Board member · Rick Stich, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 47 minMonday, August 10, 2026Polk County board sets out-of-district tuition at $3,363 per childPhones in schoolSpeakers: Lucinda T. Allen
Play 31:26
Board meeting · 37 minMonday, May 11, 2026Polk County school board hears facility study, approves HVAC repair lottery applicationEnrollmentReading and test scores
Play 5:14
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 2 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingMike AshworthChair · shown, not ranked—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings
Members · listed by nameLucinda T. AllenBoard member1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meetingRick N. CovilVice Chair—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetingsDanielle GibbsBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetingsJudy N. JacksonBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetingsSherry H. PageBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetingsRick StichBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings
Meetings on our record
All 7 meetings on our record
On the map · Phones in school

August 10, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

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Federal district ID 3703720 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district