Track Policy. Drive Priorities. Engage the Public.
The all-in-one platform for school board directors to track state legislation, hit board goals, and run public meetings the community can actually engage with without jumping between three different services or excel sheets.
Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness
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Child Care Facility Notice of Closure
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Child Welfare Providers' Liability
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Update Flu Vaccine Offering to Patients 50 and Older
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Target 80% · Q3 on track
Target 75% · Behind target
Target 92% · Met
Target 100% · Q3 of 4 complete
Built specifically for the unique governance needs of K–12 School Board Directors.
Follow the Laws That Shape Your Classrooms.
Thousands of bills a session; dozens that land on your district. The difference between reacting in June and preparing in February is knowing what is happening.
Smart Assembly Tracking
Automated, plain-language monitoring of General Assembly bills affecting K–12 funding, curriculum, and operations.
District Impact Analysis
Tag bills as Support, Oppose, or Monitor and document local fiscal impact against your own budget.
Advocacy Action Toolkit
One-click representative lookup, pre-formatted position letters, and coordinated regional advocacy.
2025-2026 Regular Session
2025-2026 Regular Session
2025-2026 Regular Session
Bills, status and progress are live from the PA General Assembly. The board and community tallies are illustrative.
Already tracking the PA General Assembly, in full.
- Bills tracked
- 65,876
- Through education committees
- 5,670
- Committees
- 66
- Individual votes recorded
- 554,747
Turn Strategic Priorities Into Measurable Outcomes.
A board resolution nobody measures is a sentiment. The same dashboard that watches the capitol keeps your own priorities attached to a number and a date.
District Goal Framework
Set, track, and visualize multi-year board priorities, KPIs, and superintendent targets in one dashboard.
Objective Goal Grading
Structured quarterly and annual evaluation tools to assess district progress fairly and accurately.
Executive Alignment
Keep the board, superintendent, and administrative team on the same page with clear progress reports.
Run Meetings the Public Can Actually Engage with.
Most residents never speak at a board meeting because the agenda is a PDF they can't read and signing up to comment means arriving early enough to find a clipboard. Let them sign up to speak online, read an agenda written to be understood, and follow the item they actually care about.
Digital Public Comment Sign-up
Residents sign up to speak from their phone before the meeting starts, and the board walks in knowing who is speaking, in what order, and on which item.
Agendas People Can Read
Plain-language agenda items with the packet attached, so a resident can tell what is actually being decided without opening a 90-page PDF.
Follow What You Care About
Subscribe to a single agenda item, a board, or a committee calendar and get told when it is scheduled, when it moves, and when the board reaches it.
Free today: a public meeting calendar your community can subscribe to. Agendas, minutes, public comment, and the speaker queue are part of the Board plan, which is currently paused for sale — email [email protected] if your board wants early access.
One command center, not three half-solutions.
Each of these jobs already has something doing it badly — a bulletin, a consultant, a portal, or a spreadsheet and a clipboard. Here is each module against what it actually replaces.
Knowing what the statehouse is doing to your district
| Capability | Board Advocate | Association bulletins | Spreadsheets & news alerts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated statehouse bill tracking Every bill in the session, imported from the official record |
Yes
|
Curated highlights only
|
Manual searching
|
| Education-specific filtering By committee, subject and impact — not keyword luck |
Yes
|
Statewide, not your district
|
If you build it
|
| Plain-language bill summaries And an account of what each amendment changed |
Yes
|
Selected bills only
|
No
|
| Board positions and private notes Support, oppose or monitor, shared across the board |
Yes
|
No
|
No audit trail
|
| Automatic alerts on movement Votes, amendments and committee referrals |
Yes
|
Weekly round-up
|
No
|
Holding your own goals and your superintendent to a number
| Capability | Board Advocate | Consultant-led review | Documents & shared drives |
|---|---|---|---|
| District goal and KPI tracking Multi-year board priorities with measurable targets |
Yes
|
Rebuilt each engagement
|
Untracked spreadsheets
|
| Objective superintendent evaluation Structured quarterly and annual grading |
Yes
|
Facilitated, at a price
|
Ad hoc forms
|
| Progress visible between review cycles Where each goal stands today, not only at year end |
Yes
|
Point-in-time only
|
Whoever updates the file
|
| One record the whole board works from Same goals, same evidence, no competing versions |
Yes
|
Consultant's report
|
Emailed attachments
|
Letting the community follow and take part in your meetings
| Capability | Board Advocate | Board portal software | District website & clipboard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscribable public meeting calendars Per board or committee, with iCal, Google and Outlook feeds |
Yes
|
In-portal list
|
A PDF of dates
|
| Agendas written to be understood Plain-language items with the packet attached to each one |
Yes
|
One combined PDF
|
Uploaded PDF
|
| Digital public comment sign-up Residents sign up to speak from their phone, before the meeting |
Yes
|
No
|
Clipboard at the door
|
| Timed speaker queue and call order Who is next, on which item, with a countdown the room can see |
Yes
|
No
|
Run by hand
|
| Follow a single agenda item Residents subscribe to the one thing they care about and get notified |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Searchable minutes and archive Findable by text rather than by scrolling a folder of files |
Yes
|
Portal search only
|
PDF archive
|
Ready to Lead Proactively From the Capital to the Classroom?
Join forward-thinking school boards using Board Advocate to stay informed, advocate effectively, and deliver results.
Currently free while this project is in prerelease. Goal management is in active development.