PY / 001District Register

654 requirements. One usable system.

New York school requirements are scattered across laws, regulations, and agencies. Pyrric researched and sorted 654 of them, and built a system that shows each district what applies and what it actually has to do.

The question: what does New York actually require a school district to publish, and where?

1. Found654 requirements drawn from Education Law, Regents regulations, the General Municipal Law, federal law, and New York City rules, each traced to its source and the role responsible for it.
2. LearnedOnly about 1 in 7 requirements is a website duty. Most are direct notices, filings, or public records.
3. DecidedOrganize by what a district must do and how: post online, notify directly, or keep public. Never by statute number alone.
4. Built
   • A register filtered to each district
   • A deadline calendar traced to the governing rule
   • A website checklist and a view by responsible role
5. PrincipleClaims are evidenced, not advertised.

1. Source

   “Each local educational agency must establish a local school wellness policy for all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program under the jurisdiction of the local educational agency.”

   SOURCE / 01 · 7 CFR §210.31(a), verbatim · eCFR
2. Interpretation

   Only if schools under your jurisdiction participate in the National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.

   Register record · Applies to. The condition becomes a test each district answers, not a duty every district carries.
3. Action

   Each local educational agency establishes a local school wellness policy for all schools under its jurisdiction that participate in the National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.

   Register record · Plain-language duty
4. Responsible role

   Board of Education

   Register record · Responsible party · Authority: 7 CFR §210.31(a), (c)

PY / 002Long Island school district

Information families could actually find.

Families were missing things the district had already published. Pyrric rebuilt how that information reaches them.

The question: why were families missing information the district had already published?

1. FoundFamilies were reached through four separate messaging apps. Monthly lunch menus were designed PDFs. Translation and mobile navigation behaved inconsistently.
2. LearnedThe information existed. It was scattered across channels and formats families had to work to open.
3. DecidedWebsite content as live pages instead of files, and clear communication around the district's move to one family channel.
4. Built
   • The family letter launching the new messaging platform and app
   • Menus rebuilt as editable, accessible web tables
   • Translation and mobile navigation repairs
   • Strategic plan pages and dashboards on the district domain

PY / 003Move Through Guyana

Mapping what official maps miss.

A working prototype for finding and naming places the way people actually know them.

The question: how do people find and name places where official maps fall short?

1. FoundResearch across government sources, local knowledge, and field observation showed that official mapping alone doesn't describe how some places are actually known or reached.
2. DecidedDesign around evidence, local knowledge, and uncertainty, instead of treating every location fact as equally certain.
3. BuiltA working mobility and place-information prototype for Guyana.

More will be published as the pilot develops.