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When the Contract Tells You What to Track

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Dr. Brittany Miller and Justin Serrano

Outcomes based contracting promises that districts pay for results, not just services. But that promise only holds if districts and providers can see what’s happening while there’s still time to act. Brittany Miller, Executive Director of the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting, and Justin Serrano, CEO of Littera Education, examine what it takes to build data infrastructure that makes contract terms visible in real time—and what becomes possible when accountability is legible at the speed of implementation, not the speed of publication.

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