The Examiner U-46 News FeedContract renewals up for District U-46 board vote By Seth Hancock
The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on $296,709 in contract renewals at its upcoming meeting on Monday, Jan. 10.
The items were presented on Dec. 13, 2021.
Included is a curriculum and instruction renewal with Renaissance-MyON costing $256,459, to be paid through the education fund if approved.
The proposal states that MyON’s “an online book database that provides each student, PreK-12, with a personalized digital library.”
It includes English and Spanish fiction and nonfiction books, about 7,000 in total.
“Since last summer when we began to use MyON, students have accessed over 67,000 books through the resource,” the proposal states.
The initial contract, costing $86,752, was between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2021. This contract would run between Jan. 1 to Aug. 31.
Also ready for a vote is a $40,250 (education fund) contract renewal with Panorama Education for an “equity and inclusion” survey.
“Conducting this survey of our students helps us to address feedback provided by the Board of Education to ensure we are capturing student voice in our equity work,” the proposal states. “Panorama presents the results through a flexible reporting dashboard, allowing us to disaggregate by school, grade, gender, race/ethnicity, income status, and program participation to identify important patterns in our data. The proposal also includes two interactive ‘data inquiry workshops’ led by Panorama staff that have been valuable opportunities for our teams in previous years.”
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