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Board declines proposed multi‑year reading‑intervention contract after debate over program effectiveness and cost
Summary
A proposed multi‑year contract covering Read 180 and iLit reading intervention licenses and services failed to win board approval; trustees asked staff to rework the procurement and return with clearer, separate proposals and itemized costs.
The Baltimore County Board of Education on June 10 voted not to approve a proposed multi‑year contract that would have funded licensed reading intervention programs (Read 180 and iLit) under a single solicitation.
At a building and contracts committee meeting the previous day the committee forwarded the item to the full board without a recommendation. During the June 10 meeting instructional staff and procurement officials described how the district planned to scale use of the two programs, the expected per‑student license costs and how the programs would be targeted to schools showing growth with specific interventions.
Dr. Kraft, an instructional official, told the board the district was proposing to…
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