rfp

Repeal of appropriation for eLearning Project

3 July 2008 Update!

Arizona's RFP ED08-0020 E-Learning Pilot Program

Dec 2007

From Tom Horne: Superintendent of Public Instruction

"At the conclusion of the Arizona Forty Eight Legislature - Second Regular Session it was determined that funding for the eLearning Pilot would: As permanent law, repeal the $3 milliono appropriation for the eLearning from Laws 2006, Chapter 375, as amended by Laws 2007, Chapter 264, and revert any unexpended monies. Therefore, no funds exist to support an award under RFP ED08-0020."

Read how South Carolina has been more successful in putting a laptop and digital curriculum into the hands of their kids:

An Education Laptop for Every Student in South Carolina

at: http://laptopsc.org/

Harlem XO Laptop Pilot Study

In February 2008, Teaching Matters began a pilot project to give the XO laptop to one class of sixth-grade students at Kappa IV, a middle school in Harlem. There are three sixth-grade classes at Kappa IV, and the students in each class stay together for all their classes. The laptops were given first to one class first, chosen by lottery, and then to the other two classes at the end of the semester. The XO was to be used specifically for the final three units of a year-long Teaching Matters literacy curriculum, which was taught to all sixth graders, but the students were allowed to use them in other classes if their teachers allowed this. After the first two weeks, they were also allowed to take them home. Before they did so, however, the school held a meeting for parents, both to orient them to the XO as a computer and to respond to their concerns.

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Response to Arizona's RFP ED08-0020 - eLearning Pilot Program

Executive Summary

RFP ED08-0020 E-Learning Pilot Program

Deadline: 14 Dec 2007
The Arizona Department of Education desires to contract with a vendor to design, develop, and implement an e-learning pilot program to deliver digital middle school mathematics content aligned to Arizona State Academic Standards to selected schools. The goal of the e-Learning pilot program is to help schools achieve academic and motivational gains based on state and national standards. There will be a pre-offer conference for this solicitation at 2005 N. Central Avenue, #100, Phoenix, AZ 85004 on November 16, 2007 at 9:00 A.M. Mountain Standard Time. Proposals will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. M.S.T. on December 14, 2007 at the Arizona Department of Education, Procurement Section, 3rd Floor, 1535 West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85007. CLICK HERE (http://www.ade.az.gov/procurement/Opps/) for a copy of the solicitation.

July 2008 Update!