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Finance committee forwards purchasing agenda after briefing on special-education assessment software
Summary
The Grand Rapids Public Schools Board Finance Committee on July 28 advanced the purchasing agenda to the full board after staff described a renewal/purchase for a Pearson digital assessment library used by special-education staff and discussed fiscal-year invoice timing and pending federal Title allocations.
The Grand Rapids Public Schools Board Finance Committee on July 28 voted to forward the district’s purchasing agenda to the full board after staff described several purchasing items, including a digital assessment library used by special-education staff, and explained fiscal-year accounting timing that may affect budgets.
Speaker 5 (identified in the meeting as Mr. Walsh, special-education staff) told the committee the district implemented the Pearson digital assessment library about 10 years ago and that it stores a range of assessments used by psychologists and related-service providers. "We went from all paper kind of diagnostic into this software by Pearson," Speaker 5 said. He added the system allows the district to maintain a required variety…
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