Rochester City School District Board of Education

16 meetings on our record, 13 of them from the past year and 3 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 2 h 08 min · 22,164 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 4, 2026: Special meeting, 48 min
Newest meeting we have: Sep 4, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Heather Feinman, Commissioner · Beatriz LeBron-Harris, Commissioner · Amy Maloy, Vice President

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Special meeting · 48 minFriday, September 4, 2026Safety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Isaiah Santiago

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Special meeting · 4 h 12 minThursday, August 27, 2026Rochester school board strips language staff items from resolution pending more dataVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Camille Simmons, Amy Maloy, Heather Feinman, Jacqueline Griffin and 2 more

Play 3:33:54

Work session · 4 h 19 minMonday, July 13, 2026Rochester school board settles on option 3 meeting schedule after reviewing board protocolsBudget cuts and layoffsSafety, weapons and policeSpeakers: Camille Simmons, Amy Maloy, Heather Feinman, Jacqueline Griffin and 2 more

Play 1:31:28

Work session · 2 h 08 minTuesday, June 9, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsReading and test scoresSpeakers: Camille Simmons, Amy Maloy, Heather Feinman, Jacqueline Griffin and 2 more

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Who does the talking

Jacqueline Griffin or Kareem Ba McCullough spoke the most of the 6 members we rank on the Rochester City School District board; the ranges can't say which

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 13 board meetings, Nov 4, 2025 – Sep 4, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEach rank is a 90% range across 13 resampled meetings, so "2nd–4th" means the data can't place them more exactly. The ranges may widen as we name more of the speech.

Coverage: about 85% of members’ speaking time named (63%–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

—Camille SimmonsBoard President · runs the meeting, not ranked26.2min, at least12 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart6.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · ranked by minutes per meeting

1st–2ndJacqueline GriffinCommissioner8.9min, at least11 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated28%of the members’ talking · 11%–43%8.2questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–6thKareem Ba McCulloughCommissioner6.0min, at least9 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated18%of the members’ talking · 10%–30%8.8questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–5thIsaiah SantiagoCommissioner6.3min, at least12 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated20%of the members’ talking · 11%–32%4.9questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–6thBeatriz LeBron-HarrisCommissioner4.3min, at least9 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated13%of the members’ talking · 7%–26%1.1questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–6thAmy MaloyVice President3.7min, at least12 of 13meetings heard, of those while seated11%of the members’ talking · 6%–25%1.7questions asked per meeting, at least

3rd–6thHeather FeinmanCommissioner2.4min, at least8 of 12meetings heard, of those while seated7%of the members’ talking · 4%–21%1.8questions 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 · line = our margin: members whose lines overlap may sit in either order · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

All 16 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

I know we're trying to save money and that's why we have just one center opening. …Amy MaloyVice President · Rochester City School District Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 2:43:52
On page 29, there is only one, and this is for the code of conduct, the bigger document with 79 pages, but on page 29 for disruption, there is only one option before we go straight into suspensions, um, which is something that I don't think is, is helpful or fair, um, in our conversations with our young people.Isaiah SantiagoCommissioner · Rochester City School District Board of Education · Apr 7, 2026Watch the full meeting from 7:34

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance11%5%–19%

Public comment4%0%–14%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–1%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

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 16 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 14; 2 had at least one. The busiest, on May 19, 2026, heard from 21.

21 on May 19, 202621 speakers11 speakers1.7 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 2 of the 16 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 4	Aug 27	Jul 13	Jun 9	May 19	May 12	Apr 7	Mar 10	Feb 10	Jan 13	Dec 11	Dec 9	Nov 4
Camille Simmons	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Amy Maloy	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Isaiah Santiago	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Kareem Ba McCullough	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Beatriz LeBron-Harris	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3624750 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district