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Students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have launched Civic Cycle, a free web application designed to help residents follow local school board meetings.

The tool imports school board agendas from BoardDocs and detects when a new meeting is published. It then uses Claude AI to generate a meeting summary. The student group says every AI-generated summary is reviewed by a human before it is published.

Civic Cycle also allows users to create accounts and receive email alerts about specific topics. As of June 2026, Ronit Singh said the service could produce summaries for school boards in Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington and Prince William counties.

Singh said the project grew out of a conversation with a friend about a Fairfax County School Board decision. The friend told Singh that the board had changed its cellphone policy after the vote, an example Singh said showed how difficult it can be for residents to keep up with local decisions.

“I felt in the dark about FCPS and other school board decisions,” Singh said.

Singh said Civic Cycle could potentially be scaled to school boards that use the BoardDocs platform.

“I really just hope that people can be more informed about what’s going on in their local counties,” Singh said.

The application’s accuracy, adoption and number of users have not been independently verified. The claim that every summary receives human review is attributed to the student group, and the potential to expand the service to any BoardDocs-using school board has not been independently demonstrated.