Kentucky - Small district (two elementaries, 1 middle and 1 high school for the County, ~ 2200 students altogether). We conducted some meetings via Zoom during early Covid, and then continued to utilize Zoom for a few months more to permit remote attendance from school and district administrators as we limited in-person attendees to board and superintendent for awhile. Eventually it just trickled off, we got back to full-in person, nobody was logging onto the zoom meetings, so it became not worth our IT dept head setting up for it. We are in one of those districts where NOBODY shows up to a meeting unless there's a perceived crisis, such as one sport getting an upgrade to a facility that another is not. In ten years of meetings, I can count the times someone aside from people required/expected to be there have shown up to a meeting in person or during Zoom times on both hands, and I barely need the 2nd hand to do so. Social media is quick to light up the day after once the local online news posts their write up of the meeting reports if anything out of the ordinary happens, and the usual peanut gallery will gather a long list of comments of "replace the board, vote them all out!" and "Enough is enough!" and things like that, but oddly enough, in my 10 years on the board, there has never been a contested seat for any of the 5 districts and they've all come up for election at least 2x each in that time. SOME people are quick to complain, but definitely not quick to give up their time to do anything about it. 

I don't know if this is true for most other places or not, but there's a huge lack of knowledge of what the "school board" actually is. Here, when people hop on social media and say "Call the board and complain", they're usually talking about the central office / superintendent. For some reason, our district's central office building has been referred to as the "Board Building" for 40+ years, though I don't think there's been a more than a couple board meetings held there in history and the board members certainly don't operate out of there. By Kentucky statute, the only real power a board has is to hire/fire the superintendent. Aside from that, it's all oversight. We approve overnight or out of state travel for student events, approve FMLA requests for employees (which is interesting, as we don't know what the situation is and I don't think legally you can decline it as long as it meets the criteria). Approve projects and payments to those completing those projects, but you have to have a certain level of trust in your facilities director that they're tied in and in the best interest of the district and their updates and recommendations are on point. 

I suppose if you don't like something, you could fire the superintendent, and then deal with the wrongful termination lawsuit (which you would lose), whatever that costs you, plus tens of thousands of dollars for a new superintendent search and hiring process unless you had an outstanding candidate in-house... If you're going to make a move on the superintendent position, you better have at least a couple years worth of documented sub-standard superintendent evaluations and no trend in improvement over that time, in which case you're probably coming up on the end of their contract anyway by that time and can just not renew it. Obviously there would be exceptions for illegal activity or something drastic that would trump the need to show decline of performance over time.