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Senate panel presses Education Department over $9.43 million Pearson test purchase; agency outlines $5,000 translation mitigation
Summary
A Senate special commission scrutinized the Department of Educations $9.43 million purchase of psychological tests from a Pearson representative, finding key materials unusable without translation and training; the department described a mitigation plan and was ordered to deliver authorization and cost documents within five business days.
The Senates Special Commission for Legislative Monitoring of the Special Education Program pressed the Puerto Rico Department of Education on Sept. 11 over the departments purchase of a 15-instrument psychological test battery listed in contract 2023-AF-0430 for $9,430,704.30 and for which administration has been paused because of linguistic and cultural inadequacies.
Committee members and department officials focused on why tests containing English-language instructions or correction materials were acquired for schools that operate primarily in Spanish, and on what remediation would cost. Undersecretary Bevely Morro Vega told the commission the department has received a letter of authorization from Pearson to translate specific items and that the immediate mitigation and validation exercises were estimated…
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