About This Site

Who Prepared This

Rasmus “Cervator” Praestholm – West Orange resident, parent of three children in the district, PTA member, and volunteer with a local youth sports league. By profession, a software engineer.

Disclaimer

These proposals were assembled aspirationally on behalf of the community. While the author is affiliated with local organizations including a PTA and a youth sports league, no organizations have been committed to any of the ideas presented here, and no promises are made about specific outcomes or savings.

Not every idea in these documents will be viable. Some may be false leads, and some may duplicate efforts the district has already undertaken. Because the district’s processes are largely not public, we have no way to know what has already been tried or considered.

The intent is to:

  • Start a conversation about what the community can do to help
  • Demonstrate capacity – one person produced this in a few days; imagine what a coordinated community effort could achieve
  • Offer a framework for community-district collaboration, not a finished plan

How This Was Made

These documents were researched, drafted, and organized over a few days using modern AI-assisted writing tools, web research, and publicly available data (news coverage, NJ state reports, legislative records, and published audits). The spring 2026 proposals tried to source specific claims with links, most of them collected in References & Source Links. A review in October 2026 found that some of those sources do not support the claims they are attached to, and that some links have since died; treat the archived modules as starting points, not verified findings. The newer Ledger is held to a stricter standard: each entry is labelled with what it rests on (a district record, a quoted official statement, or a named press report) and links to it.

The site is built with Jekyll and the just-the-docs theme, hosted on GitHub Pages. The source is public at github.com/SiliconSaga/schools.

Translations and Display

The Español and Kreyòl links at the top of every page open that page through Google Translate, and the language marked “Current” is the one you are reading; English brings you back to the original. This is machine translation offered as a help for reading; it is not an official or certified translation, and where it matters the English page is the one this site stands behind. Your browser may also offer to translate the page on its own.

Español: los enlaces Español y Kreyòl abren la página mediante Google Translate. Es una traducción automática, ofrecida como ayuda; no es una traducción oficial ni certificada. La versión en inglés es la que este sitio respalda.

Kreyòl Ayisyen: lyen Español ak Kreyòl yo louvri paj la nan Google Translate. Se yon tradiksyon otomatik, yo bay li kòm yon èd; se pa yon tradiksyon ofisyèl ni sètifye. Vèsyon anglè a se sa sit sa a kanpe dèyè.

On a wide screen, the Switch to Wide button lets the page use the full width of the window instead of a reading-width column, and Switch to Light swaps the dark colour scheme for a light one. Both choices are remembered in your browser and nowhere else.

How to Help

  • Suggest improvements: Open an issue
  • Contribute directly: Pull requests welcome
  • Lend expertise: If you know NJ school law, health insurance, grant writing, fundraising, or data visualization, your input would be especially valuable
  • Give feedback to the district: the district’s 2026-27 budget ideas form (opened for the spring 2026 budget; it may no longer be monitored)