William Banning
President, Santa Barbara Unified. Heard at 2 board meetings; spoke longest on Sep 15, 2026: at least 30 minutes.
2 of 2board meetings heard, of those held while seated; plus 5 with no confirmed date
—talk time shows once a board has 5 or more meetings a year on our record
2clips
2.5questions asked per meeting, at least (15 in 6 meetings)
Clips
What William Banning said
I might suggest also that the issue of capacity is likely quite different in elementary schools than secondary schools, because as we have learned, as we have been talking about the 7-period day, part of the capacity of what kind of electives we can offer depends on how many students are there.William BanningPresident · Santa Barbara Unified Board of Education · Aug 25, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:36:53
one of the biggest challenges in this work is balancing the— what you talked about in, in one of the slides, the need for autonomy for particular admin and sites to address the needs of the students they are supporting, and to balance that with the idea of district-wide coherence and alignment and curriculum.William BanningPresident · Santa Barbara Unified Board of EducationWatch the full meeting from 2:07:31
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