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# Iowa City Schools Board Archive

Follow what the Iowa City Community School District board is doing —
without clicking through a dozen places to find it. Every public board
meeting, every supporting document, every YouTube recording, and every
news article about ICCSD is indexed here, in one searchable archive
that auto-refreshes daily.

In 2026, the board has worked on the $10 million interfund transfer
disclosed at the January 27 meeting, the loss of the district's bond
rating, the May 12 pause of the $104 million Facilities Master Plan,
and the May 26 board vote (5–2) on Superintendent Matt Degner's
transition out of the superintendency. Use the buttons below to ask an
AI about any of it, or scroll down to browse the record yourself.

**Independent. Free. Not affiliated with the district.**

## Just ask

Pick a tool — it opens with the archive's full index already loaded,
then asks you what you want to know. The financial crisis, a specific
meeting, how a board member has voted on contested items, what the press
has said about a particular issue — anything in the record.

[:material-comment-question-outline: Ask ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/?q=You%27re%20a%20research%20assistant%20for%20the%20Iowa%20City%20Schools%20Board%20Archive.%20Start%20by%20fetching%20the%20site-wide%20index%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fb00mhauer%2Fiowa-city-schools-board-archive%2Fmain%2Fdocs%2Fllms.md%20to%20see%20what%20pages%20are%20available%2C%20then%20fetch%20whichever%20pages%20are%20relevant%20to%20answer%20questions%20about%20ICCSD.%20Confirm%20when%20you%27ve%20loaded%20the%20index%2C%20then%20ask%20me%20what%20I%20want%20to%20know.){ .md-button .md-button--primary }   [:material-comment-question-outline: Ask Gemini](https://gemini.google.com/app?q=You%27re%20a%20research%20assistant%20for%20the%20Iowa%20City%20Schools%20Board%20Archive.%20Start%20by%20fetching%20the%20site-wide%20index%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fb00mhauer%2Fiowa-city-schools-board-archive%2Fmain%2Fdocs%2Fllms.md%20to%20see%20what%20pages%20are%20available%2C%20then%20fetch%20whichever%20pages%20are%20relevant%20to%20answer%20questions%20about%20ICCSD.%20Confirm%20when%20you%27ve%20loaded%20the%20index%2C%20then%20ask%20me%20what%20I%20want%20to%20know.){ .md-button .md-button--primary }   [:material-comment-question-outline: Ask Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/?q=You%27re%20a%20research%20assistant%20for%20the%20Iowa%20City%20Schools%20Board%20Archive.%20Start%20by%20fetching%20the%20site-wide%20index%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fb00mhauer%2Fiowa-city-schools-board-archive%2Fmain%2Fdocs%2Fllms.md%20to%20see%20what%20pages%20are%20available%2C%20then%20fetch%20whichever%20pages%20are%20relevant%20to%20answer%20questions%20about%20ICCSD.%20Confirm%20when%20you%27ve%20loaded%20the%20index%2C%20then%20ask%20me%20what%20I%20want%20to%20know.){ .md-button .md-button--primary }

<small>Perplexity is the most reliable at fetching the index; ChatGPT
works well too; Gemini's URL-fetching is hit-or-miss — if one tool can't
load the link, try another. For pre-shaped prompts on specific topics
(financial crisis, superintendent transition, etc.), see
[Chat with the Archive](chat-with-the-archive.md).</small>

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## Latest

**Most recent board meeting — June 02, 2026:** [Special Meeting of the Board of Directors](meetings/2026/2026-06-02-special-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md). A Special Meeting whose Action Items were the formal acceptance of Superintendent Matt Degner resignation and the Interim Superintendent Search (Search Options Comparison Chart and Iowa City Interim Superintendent Search proposal attached).

**Recent press coverage:**

- **June 9, 2026** — *KCRG-TV9* — [Iowa City schools face hearing with School Budget Review Committee](https://www.kcrg.com/2026/06/09/iowa-city-schools-face-hearing-with-school-budget-review-committee/)
- **June 7, 2026** — *The Cedar Rapids Gazette* — [Iowa City schools appearing before independent state financial oversight committee Tuesday](https://www.thegazette.com/news/education/iowa-city-schools-appearing-before-state-financial-committee/article_30b1ec93-358d-4860-ad09-353eed973946.html)
- **June 5, 2026** — *The Daily Iowan* — [ICCSD deputy superintendent accepts new position with Council Bluffs Community School District](https://dailyiowan.com/2026/06/05/iccsd-deputy-superintendent-accepts-new-position-with-council-bluffs-community-school-district/)

[Browse all 2026 press coverage →](press/2026.md) · [Browse all 2026 meetings →](meetings/2026/index.md)

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## Start here

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-   :material-calendar-month:{ .lg .middle } **Browse by meeting**

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    Every public board meeting in 2026, with agendas, votes, supporting
    documents, and a "what happened" summary.

    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: 2026 Meetings](meetings/2026/index.md)

-   :material-tag-multiple:{ .lg .middle } **Browse by topic**

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    Budget, superintendent transition, facilities, policy work,
    boundary / enrollment — each topic stitches the relevant meetings,
    documents, and press together.

    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Topics](topics/index.md)

-   :material-history:{ .lg .middle } **Browse the timeline**

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    Every meeting and every press article, in date order — newest
    first, with citations.

    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Timeline](timeline.md)

-   :material-robot-outline:{ .lg .middle } **Ask an AI**

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    Pre-loaded ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity prompts that read any page
    on this site and answer questions about it.

    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Chat with the Archive](chat-with-the-archive.md)

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## About this archive

This site is a **citizen's working reference, not a district
publication**. It links to every official document on the district's
[Simbli eBoardSolutions portal](https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/),
mirrors the YouTube recording of every meeting, and indexes every news
article published about ICCSD this year.

The site **doesn't add its own characterization** of events — it puts
the primary sources (meetings, documents, articles) in one place with
citations and lets you draw your own conclusions. When something here
contradicts the underlying PDF or article, **the original wins** —
[open an issue](https://github.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/issues)
and it'll be fixed.

See [How to Use This Archive](how-to-use.md) for what each section
means, and [Methodology](methodology.md) for how it was built.

## A blog backed by an open data repository

You're reading the human-facing layer of the archive — the blog. Behind
it sits a **public data repository on GitHub**:

- **Website (this site):** <https://b00mhauer.github.io/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/>
- **Data repository:** <https://github.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive>

Everything that generates the site lives in the repository: the news
index, the meeting summaries, the data files, the scripts that run the
daily refresh, the full git history of every change. Researchers,
journalists, developers, AI tools, and anyone else who wants to inspect
or contribute is welcome — file an [issue](https://github.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/issues),
send a pull request, or fork the project.

AI tools can read the archive's markdown source directly for clean,
citation-friendly answers — see [Chat with the Archive](chat-with-the-archive.md).

## Scope

The current archive covers **calendar year 2026**. Earlier years
(2023–2025) will be backfilled in subsequent phases.

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*For AI tools reading this page: the site-wide index of every other page
in this archive — meetings, topics, board members, press articles,
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