i-Ready, Johns Hopkins and Oakland Public Schools | tultican

i-Ready, Johns Hopkins and Oakland Public Schools | tultican

i-Ready, Johns Hopkins and Oakland Public Schools

By Thomas Ultican 5/26/2021

The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) signed an agreement on March 10 to substitute i-Ready diagnostic testing for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). The no cost agreement calls for the data to be given to Johns Hopkins University for comparative analysis with SBAC. Oakland teachers administering the program claim that the project is being financed by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

An Oakland fourth grade math teacher who administered the test stated that the it appeared to be designed to insure that students missed at least 50% of the problems. She observed,

“1) Multi-step unit conversions in the context of a word problem”

“2) Definitions/examples of independent and dependent variables”

“3) Simplification of algebraic equations with two variables”

These skills all appear to be well beyond what should be expected of 9- and 10-years-old students.

i-Ready is a product of Curriculum Associates (CA) out of Billerica, Massachusetts. It was originally formed in 1969 to publish workbooks. Ron Waldron an equities manager at Berkshire Partners took the reins in 2008 and immediately converted it to an ed-tech company.

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Year-End Deadline for CNIPS Payments - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education)

Year-End Deadline for CNIPS Payments - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education)

Year-End Deadline for CNIPS Payments

The California Department of Education’s (CDE) Child Nutrition Fiscal Services (CNFS) unit is advising Child Nutrition Program Operators of a temporary payment scheduling change.

CNFS has been notified that the State Controller’s Office will not be processing payments for a brief period in June 2021. Claims submitted between June 3 – 23, 2021 may be affected. For this reason, CNFS encourages you to submit your April and May claims in the Child Nutrition Information and Payment System (CNIPS) no later than Wednesday, June 2, 2021.

Claims in Pending status are not considered complete and need to be certified and submitted by your agency. If you have submitted an April or May 2021 claim, and it has a status of Accepted or Processed in the CNIPS, please disregard this message.

We apologize for any inconvenience this delay may causes. CNFS expects to resume normal batching and scheduling processes around June 24, 2021. CNIPS Payment Summaries will be updated accordingly after that point.

Contact Information

If you have any question regarding this subject, or if you are having difficulty entering your claim into the CNIPS, please contact your assigned Nutrition Fiscal Analyst immediately. Please locate your assigned Nutrition Fiscal Analyst on the CDE Nutrition Services web page under the Analyst Directory tab.

Questions:   Nutrition Services Division | 800-952-5609

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