Company officials and K-12 leaders have very different views of who wields the most influence over school district buying decisions, a study shows.
Goldman Sachs and other investors are financing a $17 million social impact bond for the Chicago Public Schools’ expansion of a pre-K program.
Companies selling educational technology to schools need to do a better job of explaining what their products do, and what results they can be expected to produce.
State education officials originally had estimated that 10 percent of teachers would be rated “highly effective,” but that number was revised to 20 percent, increasing the cost of the measure.
About 1,000 school finance officers are tackling issues from funding formulas to passing bond referenda at an international gathering in Florida.
The most active states have 10 or more common-core related bids, RFPs or awarded contracts on record; more than half of states have had none or one, as of 2013.
Most will be spent to wire city schools and purchase new hardware, while $20 million will buy new devices and software for classrooms.
Sixty-eight percent of district technology officials plan to delay or defer maintenance upgrades of technology and contracts, a survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows.
Three-fourths of school districts are counting on the testing consortia to provide them with common-core instructional materials, according to an MDR survey.
A state budget committee has agreed to pay $6.6 million to prevent a school Internet network from being shut down amid a legal dispute.