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Board debate: stick with Dave Ramsey curriculum or adopt free EverFi option; trustees signal consensus to uphold prior vote
Summary
Brevard trustees debated whether to replace a board‑approved Dave Ramsey personal‑finance curriculum with a free EverFi offering the district already uses; staff said EverFi could save roughly $736,000 but had not gone through the same instructional‑materials review process for this adoption cycle.
Board members debated whether to proceed with the Dave Ramsey financial‑literacy curriculum the board approved earlier in the year or to adopt a free EverFi curriculum the district already offers as a supplemental resource.
“...the free curriculum is, viewed as being equal or better than the Ramsey,” said a board member summarizing staff conversations with curriculum staff; staff told trustees the EverFi option would save about $736,000 compared with purchasing the Dave Ramsey materials. Finance and curriculum staff told trustees the EverFi resource has been used as a supplement in classrooms for years and that, had it been included on the instructional‑materials review list earlier, staff would have recommended it.
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