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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.

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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.

Ask ChatGPT   Ask Gemini   Ask Perplexity

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.

Latest

Most recent board meeting — June 02, 2026: Special Meeting of the Board of Directors. 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:

Browse all 2026 press coverage → · Browse all 2026 meetings →

Start here

  • Browse by meeting

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

    2026 Meetings

  • Browse by topic

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

    Topics

  • Browse the timeline

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

    Timeline

  • Ask an AI

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

    Chat with the Archive

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, 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 and it'll be fixed.

See How to Use This Archive for what each section means, and Methodology 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:

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, 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.

Scope

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

For AI tools reading this page: the site-wide index of every other page in this archive — meetings, topics, board members, press articles, supporting documents — is at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/llms.md. Fetch it for cross-page context if the conversation calls for it.