Savannah-Chatham County School District School Board

4 meetings on our record, 2 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · 35,781 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 2, 2026: Board meeting, 1 h 53 min
Next · Wednesday, November 4, 2026: 2:00 PM · Jessie Collier DeLoach Board Room at the Whitney Administrative Complex, 2 Laura Avenue · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Sep 2, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Roger Moss, Board President · David Bringman, Board member · Stephanie Campbell, Board member · Denise R. Grabowski, Board member · Cornelia H. Hall, Vice President Pro Tempore · Tonia Howard-Hall, Board member · Shawn A. Kachmar, Vice President · Paul E. Smith, Board member · Mary Snowden, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 53 minWednesday, September 2, 2026Phones in schoolReading and test scoresVouchers and school choiceSpeakers: Denise R. Grabowski, Cornelia H. Hall, Paul E. Smith, David Bringman and 2 more

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Special meeting · 1 h 03 minWednesday, July 15, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Roger Moss, Denise R. Grabowski, Cornelia H. Hall, David Bringman and 2 more

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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 meetingRoger MossBoard President · shown, not ranked1meeting where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 1 meeting

Members · listed by nameDavid BringmanBoard member · District Six2meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 2 meetings Stephanie CampbellBoard member · District Seven3meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 3 meetings · 1 clip Denise R. GrabowskiBoard member · District One3meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 3 meetings · 1 clip Cornelia H. HallVice President Pro Tempore · District Three4meetings where we identified their voice2clipsnamed at 4 meetings · 2 clips Tonia Howard-HallBoard member · District Eight4meetings where we identified their voice3clipsnamed at 4 meetings · 3 clips Shawn A. KachmarVice President · District Four1meeting where a checked clip names them1clipnamed at 1 meeting · 1 clip Paul E. SmithBoard member · District Five1meeting where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 1 meeting Mary SnowdenBoard member · District Two1meeting where a checked clip names them1clipnamed at 1 meeting · 1 clip

Meetings on our record

Next meetingWednesday, November 4, 20262:00 PM · Jessie Collier DeLoach Board Room at the Whitney Administrative Complex, 2 Laura AvenueRegular Board Meeting - Nov 04 2026The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 4 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

I think 5 years keeps people focused on the fact that we have to do a deep dive on our data and our performance metrics. And a lot happens in 8 years. In just the last 3 years, the charter school law landscape changed dramatically. I remember when Savannah Classical was first opened, different model, different leadership.Shawn A. KachmarVice President · Savannah-Chatham County School District School BoardWatch the full meeting from 1:39:40

If we want to see an increase of 3rd graders reading on grade level, we must focus on K through 2nd and not depend on report card grades because many of those grades are inflated. …Tonia Howard-HallBoard member · Savannah-Chatham County School District School BoardWatch the full meeting from 3:09:18
I noticed that there's truancy mailings. …Tonia Howard-HallBoard member · Savannah-Chatham County School District School BoardWatch the full meeting from 2:32:59
When we first started talking about Savannah High as the administrative space, I will fully admit I didn't have a good sense of how much space we have there, and maybe it was less space, but I thought that we were talking about actually making physical improvements to make that space large enough to bring these departments together.Denise R. GrabowskiBoard member · Savannah-Chatham County School District School BoardWatch the full meeting from 32:13

On the map · Phones in school

September 2, 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 1301020 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district