The short version
There's a search box in the top navigation now, or you can go straight to /search. Type a school, a topic, a dollar figure, a policy number — it searches across every board meeting, school page, board policy, budget page, and document on the site. Six years of public record, one box.
One box, two languages
Search from an English page and you get English results. Search from a Spanish page — /buscar — and you get Spanish results, pulled from the Spanish side of the site, not English results with a translated label slapped on top. About 40% of RCSD families speak Spanish at home, so the Spanish search runs against its own Spanish content and stays there.
It finds the document, not just the meeting
This is the part I'm happiest about. Search facilities master plan and the top result is the actual adopted Facilities Master Plan — a link straight to the PDF the board adopted, not a list of the dozen meetings that happened to mention it. The site indexes board documents by their title, so when you search for a document, you land on the document.
That sounds obvious, but it wasn't free. Some documents — the Facilities Master Plan among them — are too big for the board's document portal and get linked off to somewhere else entirely, with the link buried in the fine print of an agenda item. The site now digs those out and points search right at them.
It's forgiving about how people actually type
Real people don't search in keywords. They type "roy cloud principal email" or "board meeting about HVAC." A strict search would insist every one of those words show up on the same page and then come back empty. This one notices when a search is coming up short and quietly broadens it, so you still get the Roy Cloud page instead of a shrug. I tested it against a pile of the awkward, real-world phrasings I could think of.
How it works
Search runs entirely in your browser, against an index built when the site is published. There's no server logging your queries, no third-party search service, nothing tracking what you look for. It's all public records, indexed and handed to you directly. Fast, and private.
Try it
The search box is at the top right of every page, or jump straight to /search (/buscar in Spanish). If you go looking for something and it isn't there, or a result sends you somewhere wrong, tell me — [email protected], or the code is all on GitHub.