Thompson School District Board of Education

10 meetings on our record, 3 of them from the past year and 7 with unconfirmed dates · 885 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 28, 2026: Thompson school board endorses budget letter to families once member comments are addressed Play 1:39
Newest meeting we have: Sep 28, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

On the board: Jessica Bolte, Chairman · Daniella Caverly, Board member · Melissa Dragon, Board member · Kathleen Herbert, Vice-Chairman · Rick Medeiros, Board member · Matthew Polsky, Board member · Heather Santos, Secretary · Kristin Schultz, Board member · Justin Yong, Board member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Special meeting · 54 minMonday, September 28, 2026Thompson school board endorses budget letter to families once member comments are addressedBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Kathleen Herbert, Heather Santos, Rick Medeiros, Kristin Schultz and 1 more

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Board meeting · 1 h 52 minMonday, September 14, 2026Thompson school board approves generative AI and meeting recording policiesChronic absenteeismAI in schoolsEnrollmentPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Daniella Caverly, Rick Medeiros, Kristin Schultz, Justin Yong

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Board meeting · 1 h 59 minMonday, August 10, 2026Thompson school board approves part and upgrade repair as presentedAI in schoolsBudget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentReading and test scoresSpeakers: Jessica Bolte, Kathleen Herbert, Daniella Caverly, Matthew Polsky and 1 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 3 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingJessica BolteChairman · shown, not ranked1meeting where we identified their voicenamed at 1 meeting

Members · listed by nameDaniella CaverlyBoard member3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Melissa DragonBoard member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Kathleen HerbertVice-Chairman3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Rick MedeirosBoard member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Matthew PolskyBoard member2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Heather SantosSecretary2meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 2 meetings Kristin SchultzBoard member3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings Justin YongBoard member3meetings where we identified their voicenamed at 3 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 10 meetings on our record

On the map · Phones in school

September 14, 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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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance15%7%–29%

Public comment3%0%–7%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–3%

Safety and discipline0%0%–26%

The two readers didn’t agree on 19% 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 10 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 3 had at least one.

4 speakers2 speakers1.2 a meeting on average

Federal district ID 0904530 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district