Rockaway Budget Observatory

Rockaway Township · Morris Hills Regional build 2026-08-08-pub · all versions
The analytical views are live. Each view below renders directly from the datasets in data/ — the 357 parsed meetings, the voting record, the peer benchmarks and the issue register. Every number traces to a mirrored primary source, and every view carries a "show as table" toggle and a plain / standard / expert depth control (your choice is remembered across the site).

The views

PTA-Friendly Summary plain

A quick overview of what the RockawaySchools.com research project has surfaced, as part of its transparency mission.

Issue Board standard

Every finding, triaged by theme — and the claims the evidence refutes.

What You Pay plain

Your school tax funds two districts. The combined number nobody publishes.

The Vanishing Vote standard

93.5% of votes name nobody; the board almost never divides over money.

The Substitution Gap standard

The written record handed to a video — committee reporting fell to zero.

Issue Rivers standard

Sixteen years of agenda items by area — where board attention went.

Against Its Peers standard

Per-pupil spending vs the district's own official NJ DOE peer group.

Every Source plain

All of it, traceable, filterable, exportable.

Archive status

10,427

documents mirrored locally (8.5 GB)

217

provenance proven by content hash — the local bytes match what the URL serves

64

required documents the districts have not posted, across 12 years

139

source URLs already dead when checked — mirrors are now the only copy