The goal of the project, which is worth $3.67 million if both phases are funded, is to help schools make evidence-based decisions about ed-tech.
Any digital educational materials created with federal grants would have to be openly licensed if a proposed Department of Education regulation is adopted.
District finance officials met to discuss their challenges and new initiatives, including working with educators on aligning expenditures and educational goals.
The Committee for Economic Development hosted a discussion of how competency-based education could fill gaps in workforce needs.
In coordination with Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Initiative, the competition seeks the app that provides students with the best mobile access to career and technical education resources.
The decision to award a one-year, renewable contract to the nonprofit that manages the PARCC consortium impacts 172 schools serving 74,000 students.
About 200 educators will learn more about the common-core standards, which are implemented in American-curriculum private schools in the Middle East.
The district said that Pearson’s curriculum wasn’t the right solution for L.A. Unified now, but “we continue to work with Pearson in some areas.”
The State Educational Technology Directors Association has launched an online tool to help ed-tech companies, states, and districts learn about digital instructional material procurement.
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg deepened his involvement in ed tech by making investments in Newsela and MasteryConnect.