Author: admin@obc-southerneducation.org
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November 13, 2025 | News
5 Big Questions From 2025 EdWeek Market Brief Summit, Answered
5 Big Questions From the 2025 EdWeek Market Brief Summit, Answered, EdWeek Market Brief. This follow-up piece pulls together big insights from the Summit, including the Center’s growing influence in shaping how districts define impact.
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November 4, 2025 | News
How The OBC Model Can Deliver Meaningful Learning Opportunities
Outcomes based contracting transforms how students experience learning. Explore how tying funding to measurable results creates conditions for high-quality intervention implementation, continuous improvement, and data-driven adjustments that deliver more intentional, effective, and equitable learning opportunities for every student.
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November 4, 2025 | News
Helpful Aspects of Outcomes-Based Contracts that K-12 Officials Want All Vendors to Know
K12 leaders want partners, not vendors. Learn what education officials value most in OBC relationships, from shared risk and transparent data to implementation support and mutual accountability, and discover how providers can position themselves as true collaborators in student success.
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October 31, 2025 | News
The New Education Economy: Building Sustainable Impact at Scale
Education funding is shifting from paying for services to paying for results. Discover how outcomes based contracting aligns incentives, builds transparency, and ensures accountability flows both ways when districts and providers share responsibility for to create sustainable impact and better student outcomes.
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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 stronger…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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January 13, 2023 | News
Why a Major School District Wants Outcomes-Based Standards for Vendors
The San Antonio ISD Is One of a Group of School Systems Setting Up Performance Metrics in Tutoring and Other Areas
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December 20, 2019 | News
OBC Impact Report- looking back at 2023, looking ahead to 2024
Check out OBC’s full impact report, to read more about recent data and impacts of outcomes based contracting in districts, and for providers, across the country.