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Board questions assessment-tool costs and asks for contingency plan if Title funding transfers fail
Summary
Board members asked whether the district should continue multiple assessment tools and pressed staff on contingencies for moving positions onto Title funding; staff said FY26 proposals are expected to be funded but FY27 positions would be at risk if federal funding is reduced.
Board members asked district staff whether the district should continue paying for multiple assessment tools and whether positions proposed to be moved to Title funding have contingency plans if federal funding does not materialize.
One board member noted the district’s benchmark-assessment costs have grown, citing MAP testing costs rising from about $70,000 in 2017 to $225,000 in 2023, and asked whether the district is “being fiscally responsible in continuing with all of them” and whether some tools could be narrowed.
Dr. Nold,…
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