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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,…
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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 This article explores how the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting is helping districts move beyond outdated purchasing models by embedding accountability, dosage expectations, and impact tracking directly into contracts.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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July 10, 2019 | News
2024 NSSA research brief highlights the potential of Outcomes Based Contracting in high-impact tutoring
Outcomes-Based Contracting for Tutoring: Insights and Recommendations
