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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. Now Plexus 1.0: it also reads the record against what a California school district is expected to do. Record updated through October 6, 2026.
- Cited answers
- World knowledge
- Any language
- Includes the district website
- Experimental
CAASPP – Smarter Balanced test results
2025 & 2026Newark Unified
How Newark's students scored in English and math, school by school and grade by grade, with the change from last year.
See Newark → Alameda CountyEvery district and school
Compare and rank all of Alameda County's districts and schools by subject, grade and student group.
Open the county results → CaliforniaStatewide map
Every school in the state on one map, colored by English, math or both, from green for high to red for low.
Open the map →New in Plexus 1.0
Released Oct 16, 2026The record, read against world knowledge
Until now the analyst could only find and quote what the district's own record says. Plexus 1.0 adds a second source of knowledge: a researched model of how a California school district is expected to work — what the law requires of it, what is typical, what good practice looks like, and the warning signs of trouble, each with its deadline and the statute or guidance it comes from. That model is built separately, from public sources, and says nothing about Newark in particular.
Ask how the district stands
Between the record and the model, Plexus keeps a standing understanding of the district: for each expectation, what the record shows and whether it meets it, falls short, or leaves no trace — and every such reading is checked by a second, sceptical pass before it is trusted. Ask whether the district is financially healthy, whether its bond money is overseen the way the rules expect, or how stable its leadership has been, and the answer sets the record's facts against that norm, saying plainly which is which, and cites both.
The record is still the only evidence
The model is the yardstick, never a fact about Newark. A judgement against it is always attributed, with the law or guidance it rests on, and never stated as fact.
What changed, and why
Plexus keeps a history of its own understandings, so it can tell you what changed between one reading of the record and the next, and why.