The Evaluation Systems Group of Pearson will redevelop California’s teacher credentialing evaluations and create administrator assessments while a district in Washington state with an inefficient student information system wants a new provider.
Why District Size and Location Matters When Selling to K-12 Schools
Keep in Mind That the Vast Majority of the Nation's School Districts Have Fewer Than 2,500 Students
Contracts with the biggest districts typically get the most attention and are the most lucrative. But the vast majority of the nation’s school districts have fewer than 2,500 students–and those systems offer terrific opportunities for companies.
Boston is looking for formative assessments in math and English, and Florida’s flagship virtual education program, the Florida Virtual School, appears to have settled on an LMS provider.
Tennessee has hired Questar to give state exams, and in Utah, the Waterford Institute won a big government grant to expand online pre-K education.
New York University’s Steinhardt School is partnering with StartEd Companies to establish an accelerator and incubator program. And the market for ed-tech acquisitions is heating up outside the United States.
The largest school district in the country is giving vendors an opportunity to share their plans for improving the Big Apple’s professional development for academic intervention services. Missouri’s statewide education agency announced that it would hang onto its incumbent test-writing vendor.
School districts will be able to compare ed-tech companies’ pricing and contracts through a partnership between The Technology for Education Consortium and the Lea(R)n.
The Frederick, Va., schools award a $3 million contract for software-as-a-service; and a San Antonio-area system looks for Web programming and maintenance help.
Nation’s 6th Largest District Leapfrogs RFP Process for LMS Purchase
Broward County, Fla., takes a strikingly different approach to buying educational technology
The Broward County, Fla., school district just spent more than $5 million on a learning management system without ever issuing an RFP for the new technology.
The Houston Independent School District is looking for a vendor to build an online tool for tracking and handling hotline complaints it receives, with the goal of resolving problems that get flagged.
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