Public records of the Newark Unified School District
Board meetings, votes and the district's finances, collected from public filings and kept in one place. Two ways in: browse the record, or ask about it.
NUSD Board & Financial Information
Browse and search the whole record in one place: agendas and votes, meeting video with transcripts, warrants, purchase orders, vendor accounts and the district's financials.
- Meetings
- Votes
- Transcripts
- Warrants
- Purchase orders
- Accounts
- Financials
Ask the meetings
Put a question to an analyst that has read the record: what was decided, what was promised, what doesn't add up. Every answer cites the document it came from. Version 3.0, with the record updated through October 2, 2026.
- Cited answers
- Any language
- Includes the district website
- Experimental
New in versions 2.5 to 3.0
Updated through Oct 2, 2026New in 3.0: it reads the pictures too
Much of what the board is given exists only as images: charts in presentations, slides, maps, and scanned forms and signed agreements. The analyst now reads them from the image itself, so it can answer from a test-score chart, a facilities map, a contractor's scanned agreement or a field-trip request, and say which document and page it came from. This covers the most recent meetings first, and each new meeting is added as it comes in.
Answers built from the record's own structure
Ask what the board decided at a meeting and get every decision of that meeting, with who moved it, who seconded it and how each member voted. Ask how often a member votes against the majority, who spoke longest on an item, how a budget figure changed from one report to the next, or how a project went from first approval to completion. The analyst now counts these from the agendas, the recorded votes, the meeting recordings and the tables in the reports themselves, not only from the text that mentions them.
Ask in your language
Ask a question in Spanish and get the answer in Spanish. Ask in Mandarin, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Punjabi or Hindi, or almost any other language, and the answer comes back in that language. The record itself is in English, so quotes from it stay in English with a translation beside them, and every citation still opens the original.
Each one gets the same answer from the district's enrollment pages: start in ParentVUE, then the extra TK forms and proof of address. It is written in the language you asked in.
The district's website is now part of the record
Pages and documents from newarkunified.org now sit alongside the board's agendas, transcripts and attachments: enrollment, departments, programs and school pages. Ask about how something works, not just what the board voted on.
Long documents read section by section
Budget books, audits, the board policy manual and state guidance run to hundreds of pages. The analyst now opens the sections that hold the answer and reads them word for word, down to a reserve figure on page 45.
Who held which position, and when
Ask who was superintendent, or who chaired the board in a given year, and the answer shows the succession as a timeline drawn from the record.
Follow-ups and sharing
Every answer suggests what to ask next, and the people, positions and documents it touched are listed below it to ask about. Share any answer with a permanent link.
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