Board of Education

The Paducah Board of Education is made up of five citizens elected at-large to staggered four-year terms. To learn more about our board members, from PPS home page click the arrow beside "Our District", then click the arrow beside "Board of Education", then click on "Board Members".

Board meetings are open to the public. Regular meetings begin at 5 p.m. on the third Monday of the month either at the Innovation Hub, 500 South 25th Street or at one of our schools.

Here is a link to the Paducah Public Schools Policies and Procedures Manual.

Here are regular meeting dates for 2023. The meetings will begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Seminar Room at the Paducah Innovation Hub, 500 S. 25th Street, Paducah, Kentucky unless announced otherwise. 

January 23, 2023

February 27, 2023

March 13, 2023

March 20, 2023

April 17, 2023

May 15, 2023

June 12, 2023

July 17, 2023

August 21, 2023

September 18, 2023

October 16, 2023

November 20, 2023

December 18, 2023

Board meetings were recorded June 2020 to December 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic when meetings were either closed to the public or had limited seating. The archived meetings available on the district’s Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/PaducahPublicSchools 

Minutes from previous board meetings can be found here.

If you have any questions, contact the Board Secretary Lisa Chappell at lisa.chappell@paducah.kyschools.us  .

The Board of Education welcomes public participation.  Board procedure provides ample time at each Board meeting for public participation. Board procedure requires the following: The Board will schedule a maximum of 45 minutes of public participation, except in unusual circumstances.  Individual participants will be limited to 2 minutes each during the 45-minute public participation period.  Any exception or exemption to this Board procedure will be granted entirely at the discretion of the Board. 

The Board will listen carefully to comments and suggestions presented during public participation. The Board will generally not respond to public questions and comments during the Board meeting; however, the Board, or the superintendent at the direction of the Board, will respond later in those instances where a response is appropriate.  

 The Board of Education will not hear complaints against pupils or personnel unless such complaints have been heard by the superintendent through proper channels.   After remedies have been exhausted at lower levels, such complaints shall only be heard in executive session and in accordance with Kentucky statutes. 

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