Davidson County Schools outlines K–12 instructional programs, funding sources and costs

Davidson County Schools curriculum staff gave the school board an overview of K–12 instructional materials and digital platforms on Oct. 27, listing the programs in use, the dedicated funding sources that pay for them and several upcoming contract decisions.

The presentation, delivered by Dr. Coley (district curriculum staff), detailed literacy, math, science, language and adaptive curricula and named the state and federal object codes used to pay for them — for example PRC 85 for K–3 literacy, PRC 50 for Title I set‑aside funds, Title IV (PRC 108) for social‑emotional/character curricula, and ESSER funds used temporarily for several diagnostics and platforms.

Dr. Coley said the district currently maintains roughly two dozen instructional subscriptions and curricula that serve different grade spans and purposes and that several of those purchases were paid with one‑time pandemic ESSER funds that now are ending. “We are constantly gathering feedback from teachers on the resources. We’re constantly looking at our data to see the impacts,” Coley said. “If we’re not utilizing the materials, the resources that we purchase, then we have to look at other ways to utilize those funds.”

Most used programs, who pays for them

The district’s K–5 literacy assessment is MCLASS (DIBELS), which Dr. Coley said is purchased statewide by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and will be required K–5 for beginning/middle/end of…