Blog

Updates on the rcsd.info open data project.

June 10, 2026
A big June tune-up (and two mistakes to own up to)
The board's 619 policies now have searchable Spanish titles. Every school page shows who teaches there. The site behaves on a phone. And two bugs in our own data — doubled English Learner counts and 22 broken Spanish transcripts — that we found and fixed.
May 31, 2026
Now you can search the whole thing
There's a search box now. Type a school, a topic, a dollar figure — it searches six years of public record in English or Spanish, and links straight to the document, not just the meeting that mentioned it.
April 20, 2026
Charter schools, district property, and a small MCP fix
Three RCSD-authorized charters were a 404 on the site for months because a branch never merged. Tonight they're live, the /schools/ index has three sections instead of one, and the MCP tool can finally see what each board item actually proposes.
March 26, 2026
Two weeks in: from 58 meetings to 189
Two weeks ago I launched rcsd.info with 58 meetings. Yesterday I announced it at the board meeting. In between, the corpus tripled.
March 13, 2026
Open data for a school district: why and how
Public school districts produce a staggering amount of public data, but almost none of it is easy to find or understand. I built rcsd.info to change that.