Spot the subjects coming up across boards
Bar charts put published alerts into context, from budget and staffing decisions to curriculum and policy.
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School board data for your next story.
Find school board vote records, follow education policy, and trace story leads to agendas, minutes, budgets, and recordings. Get immediate access to the workspace on the next screen.
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See the pattern. Read the evidence.
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Search the full text, then open the source
Find matching passages in indexed minutes, agendas, packets, and transcripts. Full-text search requires a research password; reach out for access.
Policy watch
Track any policy trend
Follow an education policy question across districts, from phone rules to curriculum or school funding. Use topic patterns and source records to find a local angle. The AI watch shown here illustrates how one trend moves from discussion to proposal to adoption.
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Start with the public record
Find a pattern, then inspect the record.
Find reporting leads
Explore published alerts by state and topic to see the school stories taking shape nationwide.
Check the vote and the source
Trace a reported decision to the original record. Check what was proposed, adopted, or left unresolved.
Follow decisions across districts
Compare patterns in school funding, curriculum, staffing, and student policies, with coverage limits visible.
School board reporting resources
School board votes, meeting records, and story leads.
Research school board votes and voting records
Follow published alerts back to agendas, meeting minutes, packets, and recordings. Use those records to establish what a board proposed, what it approved, and which members voted for or against a measure when the source records that detail. A discussion is not a vote; a proposal is not an adopted policy.
Find school board election dates and upcoming votes
District pages can include sourced board elections, bond measures, budget overrides, and other local votes where available. Use them as reporting leads, then confirm election dates, candidate filing deadlines, ballot language, and polling information with the official local election office or district. OurSchoolBoard is not a complete election calendar.
Search school board meeting minutes and public records
Start with the district and issue you cover, then inspect the original source behind an alert. Meeting minutes can establish a recorded decision; agendas show what was scheduled; recordings and transcripts can add context. Additional document and alert search tools require research access.
Cover school budgets, curriculum, and education policy
Look for recurring decisions about school funding, staffing, curriculum, student phone rules, AI policies, and facilities. Compare published alert patterns by state and month to find questions worth asking across districts. Coverage gaps and differences in document availability can affect those comparisons. Explore regions to inspect a working set of districts.
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Open the data workspace to explore published alert patterns, state coverage, recent alerts, and links to district evidence. Password-protected search, power mapping, AI research, and custom watches have a separate access step. Contact us for journalist research access.
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OurSchoolBoard organizes published alerts and collected public records. Coverage varies by district, source, and date. Alert counts are not a complete tally of board votes or meetings. Open the original record before publishing or taking action.
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