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Public raises transparency concerns and questions $1M tutoring contract during Chester-Upland meeting; board offers clarifications
Summary
Public commenters asked the Chester-Upland board to provide fuller agenda documentation and questioned terms for a tutoring agreement listed online as up to $1,000,000, a grant-consultant fee and vendor payment terms; district staff said the tutoring program would be in addition to after-school programming and the board tabled C8 for further review.
Public comment at the Chester-Upland School District meeting focused on perceived gaps in the publicly posted agenda materials and on three contract-related items: a tutoring contract listed online as "up to $1,000,000," a consultant agreement that references a 15% fee on any awarded grants, and a vendor contract attachment showing a monthly payment of $10,440.
Teneen Mobley, a member of the public, said the agenda distributed at the meeting was condensed and lacked attachments available online, and she asked the board to table several items until full documentation was available. Mobley specifically asked for: the number of students and grades covered by the tutoring initiative listed as A11, whether tutoring would…
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