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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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