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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear Discovery education could help with that...[/quote]
I’m honestly surprised that there wasn’t an investigation. Imagine short changing our kids for personal greed. [/quote]

Not familiar.  Backstory/details?[/quote]
The MCPS staff who contracted with Discovery and oversaw delivery of Curriculum 2.0 turned around and got jobs at Discovery. There were some stories about how the RfP process was allegedly design to award Discovery. I don’t remember the whole story, but I think there was an attempt to solve source and a failed procurement that didn’t meet legal requirements so it had to be done over again. What was delivered was not even a complete curriculum but a hodgepodge of worksheets, generic instructions and corporate-speak concepts that students were supposed to learn.

I’m no expert, but from where I stand the situation resembled very closely an alleged fraud/kickback scheme. MCPS paid a ridiculous amount of money for a product that was substantially lower quality than just purchasing off the shelf text books, which is what they are doing now.[/quote]

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