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District proposes $311,343 in literacy materials — headphones and bilingual novel sets funded by grant
Summary
Rockdale County Public Schools staff recommended the purchase of classroom headphones ($188,926.85) and English/Spanish novel sets ($122,416.49) to support the district’s birth-to-12 comprehensive literacy plan; funding is reported as an L4GA grant. Staff said Benchmark Advance was selected as the core literacy option after stakeholder review.
Dr. Denise Richardson, speaking for the curriculum and instruction team, presented two action items the superintendent will recommend for board approval: classroom headphones for PreK–12 and novel sets for grades 6–12 in English and Spanish.
The proposal supports the district’s birth-to-12 literacy plan by widening multimodal access to text and classroom resources. Dr. Richardson said the purchases will enable students to use podcasts, videos, audiobooks and other multimodal materials in core instruction and intervention.
“The superintendent will recommend that the Rockdale County Board of Education approve the purchase of…
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