Quaestor

Quaestor is a premium iPad and iPhone learning system for educators pursuing school business officer certification — adaptive to all 50 states. It is not a study app. It is a transformation system — built so that 5 minutes a day compounds, over months, into the operating mind of a high-level school CFO. Two modes. One disciplined loop. DAILY MODE The hook. One tap from app icon to first question. 3–7 minutes of mixed reps across the seven question types: choose-one, true/false, match, fill-blank, spot-the-mistake, micro-scenario, and board-explain. Every wrong answer ends with "Why this matters in a real district." Every correct answer compounds into XP, streak, level, and per-skill mastery. COMMAND MODE The transformation. Five deep tracks: • Learning Paths — Structured lessons covering what a school business officer does, fund accounting, the budget cycle, your state's funding formula, levy and pension systems, and how to talk money to the board. Each lesson is a 5-section pattern: what it is, why it matters, real district example, common mistake, quick practice. • Simulator — Run real scenarios. Enrollment drops, audit findings, levy decisions, salary negotiations, delayed state aid. Each decision moves four live impact dials: budget, compliance, political, student. End-of-scenario debrief grades your CSBO mindset. • Dashboard Lab — A mock district P&L. Pull live levers (enrollment, salary increase, levy, funding tier, transportation) and watch fund balance, days cash, and surplus or deficit recompute in real time. • Document Decoder — Paste a paragraph from an AFR, audit, levy notice, or salary schedule. The decoder highlights what a school business officer would notice and flags what to watch. • Board Meeting Mode — Pick a topic. Type your 3–5 sentence board explanation. Get scored on clarity, accuracy, and leadership tone. Plus a searchable glossary of 100+ terms per state — each with a plain-English definition, a real example, why it matters, related terms, and a quick check with explanation. Plus exam practice tuned to your state's certification (ILTS CSBO, ASBO SFO, CASBO CBO, PASBO CPSBA, and more) in 10, 25, 50, and full-length 100-question timed sets, with explanations after every question and attempt history. STATE-AWARE Pick your state on first launch and Quaestor tunes the entire app: funding formula, pension system, certification path, statutes, and authoritative sources all swap to match. Switch states any time from Settings. DESIGN Premium clean interface. Light + dark modes. Sapphire-blue accent. iPad split layouts on every major screen — Glossary, Foundations, Simulator, Exam Prep, Sources — that turn the iPad into a leadership-development surface, not a phone scaled up. No mascots. No childish visuals. No academic clutter. PRIVACY Fully on-device. No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. Optional iCloud sync for cross-device progress. Your data lives on your device or in your iCloud — never on our servers. WHO IT'S FOR Educators preparing for school business officer certification in any state. MBA students with an education focus. Sitting CSBOs and CFOs who want a sharper rep system. Business managers who want to think more strategically. Superintendents who want to understand the financial side of their own districts. WHAT IT IS NOT A flashcard app. A textbook PDF reader. A test-bank dump. Exam prep is here, but the goal is bigger — to turn an educator into someone who thinks, decides, and communicates like a school business officer. START HERE Pick your state. Open Daily Mode. Spend 5 minutes. Come back tomorrow. That's the entire system.