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October 1, 2025 | News

‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is:’ Indiana Wants Reading Gains Before Paying

Districts across the country are exploring new ways to ensure investments deliver measurable results. This 74 Million article highlights Indiana’s innovative approach to outcomes based contracting, where provider payments are tied directly to student reading gains. The Center for Outcomes Based Contracting shares how this model helps states and districts build…

September 11, 2025 | News

2025 Model State Policy: Outcomes-Based Contracting for High-Dosage Tutoring

The Outcomes Based Contracting for High-Dosage Tutoring Model Policy establishes a statewide framework for implementing outcomes based contracts (OBC) for high-dosage tutoring in public schools. The goal is to improve academic outcomes for students through performance-driven agreements that reward providers for achieving measurable results while ensuring mutual accountability and…

August 29, 2025 | News

Outcomes Based Contracting to Support Student Growth

Discover how districts are rethinking procurement with outcomes based contracting—aligning contracts to student success, driving accountability, and giving educators the tools they need to see measurable learning gains.

August 21, 2025 | Articles

Back to School with Better Results: The OBC Toolkit for Districts

Every dollar a district spends on tutoring should be tied to better student outcomes—but most contracts track minutes logged, attendance, or time on platform instead. Hedreich Nichols explores the real cost of vague contracts and introduces the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting's free District Toolkit: four field-tested resources that help districts negotiate, structure, and monitor tutoring partnerships built around what students actually learn.

August 20, 2025 | News

Week in EdTech 8/20/25: GPT-5 Fallout & GPT-6 Memory … (feat. Brittany Miller of the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting)

Listen as Brittany Miller, Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director, breaks down the building of results-driven district–provider partnerships through OBCs. Alongside rapid takes on GPT-5 fallout, GPT-6 “memory,” Blackstone’s Cognita exit, and Pearson’s AI study prep, this podcast is one you’ll want to save.

August 1, 2025 | News

What’s in a Contract? How Outcomes Based Contracting Reshapes School District–Vendor Relationships

Grounded in research from the SCALE Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Education, this paper examines how outcomes based contracting reframes procurement—prioritizing evidence, accountability, and student achievement in district–vendor partnerships.

July 29, 2025 | News

What Is an OBC Coach: Inside the Center for OBC’s Summer Institute Training Camp

In this insider’s take, award-winning author and Center communications architect Hedreich Nichols spotlights the energy, insights, and hands-on strategies that define outcomes based coaching. Step inside the Center for OBC’s Summer Institute to see how coaches sharpen their craft and help districts drive measurable results.

May 15, 2025 | News

Districts Rethink ROI as Outcomes Based Contracting Gains Momentum

Districts are facing increased pressure to turn investments into measurable results. This article, featured in Arkansas Money and Politics, explores how the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting is helping education leaders embed accountability and impact directly into their contracts, transforming how we invest in student success.

March 27, 2025 | News

How Education Providers Can Use OBC to Sustain Long-term and Efficacious Partnerships

Explore how outcomes based contracting helps edtech providers overcome fractured procurement systems to reduce integration hurdles, accelerate decisions, and improve data security by aligning contracts with measurable student results.

March 19, 2025 | News

For Results, Schools Need Outcome-Based Contracting

March 19, 2025 By Sunil Gunderia, GovTec Writing for GovTech, Sunil Gunderia, chief innovation officer at Age of Learning, makes the provider’s case for outcomes based contracting as a response to declining math and reading proficiency. Gunderia outlines four steps for districts getting started: defining outcomes and metrics,…

February 28, 2025 | Articles News

How Outcomes Based Contracting Is Solving Edtech’s Dosage Problem

Despite billions spent on tutoring and edtech tools, many school districts are still waiting for meaningful academic gains. Why? A major disconnect between spending and student outcomes. This article explores how the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting is helping districts move beyond outdated purchasing models by embedding accountability, dosage expectations, and impact tracking directly into contracts. With federal funding sunsetting and pressure mounting, OBC isn’t just a smart innovation—it’s a necessary shift in how we invest in student success.

February 13, 2025 | Articles News

The Dosage Dilemma: Unlocking the Potential of Edtech Interventions Through Outcomes Based Contracting

Even the most promising edtech tools won’t drive results without the right implementation. This article explores how edtech potential can be realized when outcomes based contracts drive district and provider alignment around dosage, fidelity, and student impact.

January 21, 2025 | Articles News

Outcomes Based Contracting: How To Stretch Every Dollar in K-12 Education

As districts face tighter post-ESSER budget constraints, outcomes based contracting is gaining traction as a smart strategy for driving academic outcomes. This District Administration feature highlights how leaders in Duval and Fresno are tying funding to student results—not just services—to build more accountable and sustainable partnerships.

October 3, 2024 | News Press Release

The Center for Outcomes Based Contracting Concludes 2024 Annual Fall Convening and Provider Summit

Excitement Builds as Districts, SEAs, and Providers Collaborate at the 2024 Fall Convening and Provider Summit

September 13, 2024 | News

Making Districts and Providers Mutually Accountable for Student Success

Running a school district is challenging. Superintendents and principals shoulder the great responsibility of ensuring students receive a high-quality education and services to support learning in a fiscally responsible way.

July 29, 2024 | News

New Study on CBPL Feasibility

The study confirms that it is feasible to pilot outcomes based contracting for certain types of curriculum-based professional learning, with mutual interest from both districts and professional learning providers

June 29, 2024 | News

Schools are spending millions on new virtual tutoring. Is it working?

Superintendent Scott Muri knew his students needed extra help with math and reading. But before he could launch a tutoring program, he needed tutors.

May 28, 2024 | News

Three Lessons School Districts Have Learned About Contracting for Results

Schools spend billions of dollars a year on products and services, including everything from staplers and textbooks to teacher coaching and training. Does any of it help students learn more?

May 9, 2024 | News

Outcomes-Based Contracts Are Poised to Grow. Here’s Why Some Vendors May Sit Them Out

An experiment in outcomes-based contracts in K-12 is expanding, as a group of districts works to carry the approach beyond tutoring to renegotiating existing agreements for other types of academic interventions.

February 12, 2024 | News

Under Pilot Program in Texas & Florida, Tutoring Fees Depend on Student Progress

Cohen: Experiments with bonuses and penalties in Ector & Duval counties show why outcomes-based contracting should be on every district's to-do list.