Acalanes Union High School District

Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board

11 meetings on video, Aug 2025 to Oct 2026. The typical one ran 2 h 07 min in session. We also have parts of 18 older meetings.

Recent meetings

What the body took up lately

Meeting · 3 h 17 minWednesday, October 7, 2026The board approved the capital facilities modernization plan update and the deferred maintenance plan, and heard a presentation on green schools operations and sustainability practices.Speakers: Paul Chopra, Stacey Schweppe, Jennifer Chen
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Meeting · 1 h 50 minWednesday, September 16, 2026The board discussed athletic and independent study physical education and approved the 2025-2026 budget revisions.
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Meeting · 1 h 43 minWednesday, September 2, 2026The board approved its agenda and a consent calendar, recognized volunteers, heard student representative reports, and received information reports on the 2026 summer school program and on enrollment.
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Meeting · 2 h 17 minWednesday, August 5, 2026The board received the 2026 Graduate Follow-up Study report, approved the 2026-27 Awareness and Heritage Month calendar, and discussed athletic physical education.Speakers: Nancy Kendzierski, Jennifer Chen, Stacey Schweppe, Paul Chopra
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All 29 meetings
How we know

We count one meeting per body per day. A summary line shows only where a second AI reader checked every sentence against the transcript. More on how we count

Clips

What Paul Chopra said on Jun 3, 2026

I think overall it's very encouraging data, and it takes a village. I mean, I'm sure wellness centers play a significant role, but each time a student walks into the campus, there's just— there's a huge sense of community there that I think works to enable the student to feel, you know, safe and welcomed.Paul ChopraBoard Member · Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board · Jun 3, 2026Watch the full meeting from 59:24
How we know

Officials on the body's roster only, never members of the public. Each clip plays here from where the member began speaking, and we checked who is speaking before it went up. More on how we count

Where the time went

School budgets, deficits and cuts took 11% of this body's meeting time.

Out of 55 hours, older partial meetings included. The two AI readers disagreed on 16% of it; that time stays in the total.

  1. School budgets, deficits and cuts11% · 5.9 h
  2. Local tax and bond items (schools and city)6% · 3.3 h
  3. School facilities and construction1% · 0.8 h
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How we know

Two AI readers (Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini) each split every transcript into agenda items and gave each one issue from a fixed list. A stretch counts toward an issue only where both agree (lines on an item's edge are left out); the rest is 'unknown' and stays in the total. An issue's time is shown only when an independent Claude Opus read of randomly drawn moments (longer lines more likely) agrees at a Wilson lower bound of .90 or better. More on how we count

How members spoke, as a body

At least 11% of members' remarks raised a concern, of 99 remarks.

Board level only: never one member, never ranked against other bodies. A floor: the strict rule misses many polite concerns.

How we know

Three AI models read each member remark on these items. A remark counts as raising a concern only when all three agree, so the share is a floor. Never one member, never ranked against other bodies. More on how we count

The members

Who talks on the Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board

Minutes speaking per meeting · 11 meetings with names, Aug 20, 2025 – Oct 7, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

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Listed by seatMuch of what members say isn't matched to a person yet, so these minutes are floors. The real totals are higher.

Minutes are each member’s own speaking time that we could match to them, so each is a floor. We are measuring how much we miss.

Members · listed by seat
Jennifer ChenBoard Member · ran 1 meetingShare2.0+min per meeting, at least6 of 10meetings heard, of those seated and not running it1.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Paul ChopraBoard Member · We could name only 26% of their speaking time. We rank members above 30%Share1.2+min per meeting, at least5 of 11meetings heard, of those seated and not running it1.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Nancy KendzierskiBoard Clerk · Sat in 7 meetings. We rank members after 8Share1.6+min per meeting, at least3 of 7meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.7questions asked per meeting where we named them
Wendy ReicherBoard President · ran 10 meetings · Sat in 0 meetings they didn't chair. We rank members after 8—min per meeting0 of 0meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.0questions asked per meeting where we named them
Stacey SchweppeBoard Member · We could name only 29% of their speaking time. We rank members above 30%Share1.5+min per meeting, at least5 of 11meetings heard, of those seated and not running it0.6questions asked per meeting where we named them

Minutes speaking per meeting held while seated, leaving out the meetings the member ran; a meeting they missed, or where we couldn’t match their voice, counts as zero, so every number is a floor · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet · How we count

How we know

Two AI readers named each voice and had to agree. A blind reader checked 206 names across this group of bodies, as drawn: 206 were right. Minutes count meetings while the member was seated; a meeting they missed counts as zero. Questions count the times a member put a real question to staff, presenters or colleagues; two AI readers had to agree, and 287 of 290 we checked were real questions. Only speech we could name counts, so they are floors. Meetings each member ran, of those counted here, from the body's dated officer list: Wendy Reicher 10, Jennifer Chen 1. A member's minutes leave out the meetings they ran. More on how we count

Public comment

9 of the 11 meetings we counted had a public commenter. The busiest, on Aug 20, 2025, heard from 4.

4 on Aug 20, 20251.7 a meeting on average
How we know

We count public commenters. They are counted, never named or quoted. Officials, staff and invited presenters aren't counted. We checked the count against a full read of 50 meetings: 50 were within one speaker. More on how we count

Attendance

The roll call

No roll call we could read at these meetings.

Members from the body’s own roster page · Meetings from videos the district posted