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Senate panel probes $6AD7M psychometric purchase after tests and manuals arrive largely in English
Summary
Lawmakers and psychologists criticized the Department of Education's procurement of a battery of psychometric instruments, saying manuals arrived in English and asking for purchase orders, invoices and award documents within 10 days to determine whether public procurement rules or contract terms were violated.
The Senate's Special Commission on Legislative Monitoring pressed the Department of Education on June 5 over the purchase and distribution of psychometric instruments for school psychologists after some manuals and materials arrived in English.
Senators and union representatives said the Department awarded a procurement for 14AD15 instrument packages in late 2023 and early 2024 that cost an estimated "around seven million" dollars. "We received catorce instrumentos, algunos en espaF1ol y su mayorAD—a en inglE9s," said a union representative for the regional office psychologists. The Department acknowledged that manuals for some tests were in English and said it…
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