August 23, 2016      4:00 PM
Texas Education Agency moves forward with controversial ETS testing contract
But not without a long list of sanctions for the vendor
Editor’s note: A copy of the memo
outlining the sanctions is available to our subscribers in this story – SB
Texas will
hold onto its $280 million four-year testing contact with ETS, but force the
vendor to spend $15 million of its own money to shore up its infrastructure.
The Texas
Education Agency calls the $5.7 million penalty it slaps on ETS
“liquidated damages.” Those can be found in this email to ETS Vice President John Oswald. Then, under separate
cover, a memo instructs ETS to spend its own money to address a laundry list of
concerns.
By Kimberly Reeves
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