On Monday, February 25, 2013, the Board of Education will unanimously vote another $360,000 to be spent on a Pearson product. The product is PowerSchool.
PowerSchool looks a lot like Edline that MCPS claims they are eliminating.
Note the PowerSchool product is being purchased without taking any bids from any other vendors. Why no bids? No competition from other vendors? What happened to Edline?
That's PowerSchool by Pearson, as in MCPS sold the curriculum to Pearson and we haven't made a dime in royalties.
I am sure that PowerSchool will not be used to its potential just like Edline. Apparently teachers are only required to update Edline every two weeks according to their contract. That is a lot of money for something not utilized as it should by teachers and for students/parents.
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