The decision to award a one-year, renewable contract to the nonprofit that manages the PARCC consortium impacts 172 schools serving 74,000 students.
The National Federation of the Blind questions whether e-books that educators will purchase through Amazon’s storefront are likely to be fully useful to its community.
Educators in New York City would be able to buy e-books for their schools via an Amazon “storefront,” pending approval of a $30 million contract.
In a decision with potentially huge implications, a New Mexico judge has rejected the AIR’s protest of a PARCC contract awarded to Pearson.
California state board officials have approved a $240 million assessment contract for ETS, despite complaints from a rival vendor.
Ten technology developers have won contracts to develop units for a group of states seeking “open educational resources.”
The state has given notice to a vendor and the Smarter Balanced testing consortium that they are in “breach of contract” after a series of testing glitches.
Pearson is asking California officials to re-bid a testing contract, potentially worth a quarter of billion dollars, calling the decision to award the deal to ETS illegal, arbitrary and capricious.
South Carolina officials violated various pieces of state procurement law in awarding a $58 million contracts to the ACT Inc., a top procurement panel has ruled.
A statewide assessment contract worth $58 million can go forward the first year, but must be re-bid in the following years, according to a new ruling.