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Ypsilanti Community Schools board approves $242,096 in curriculum, therapy and training contracts
Summary
The YCS Board on May 11 approved purchases and contracts—including American Reading Company materials and Visible Learning professional development—totaling approximately $242,096 to support instruction, summer therapy services and staff training for 2026–27.
Ypsilanti Community Schools’ Board of Education on May 11 approved a bundle of instructional-materials purchases and service contracts totaling about $242,096.
The package approved in a single motion by Trustee Maria Goodrich and seconded by Trustee Dawn Espy includes three American Reading Company items for Ypsilanti Community Middle School (professional development, $48,400; consumables, $58,050; digital materials, $12,000), Pediatric Therapy Associates LLC summer services for $43,746.00, and Visible Learning professional-development services for $79,900. The motion carried with all five board members voting aye: Dr. Celeste Hawkins, Maria Goodrich, Jeanice Townsend, Talisha Sutton-Kennedy and Dawn Espy.
Board materials describe the American Reading Company purchases as continued implementation for Ypsilanti Community Middle School; Pediatric Therapy Associates was presented as a provider of summer therapy services; Visible Learning was listed for district professional development. The board approved the expenditures after the Human Resources director’s staffing presentation and the consent-agenda vote earlier in the meeting.
The approvals were recorded as part of the meeting’s Action Item A for instructional material and contract renewals. No substitute motions, amendments or recorded dissent were noted in the minutes.
Next steps: the approved contracts will be implemented by district administration as described in the board packet; the minutes do not specify contract start dates beyond 2026–27 materials and summer services.
