Ratifies $40,000 for Transcribing Mariners to make Braille materials for blind students
Transcribing Mariners will transcribe curriculum, worksheets and other educational material into Braille for district students who are blind, including tactile graphics, embossing and digital files. The term is July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. The Board is ratifying (approving after the fact) the agreement.
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- Vendor / partner
- Transcribing Mariners · Edmond, OK
- Action
- New agreement
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- Special education“Special Education” lumps together very different kinds of spending, from full-time private school placements to everyday staffing, and the public record rarely says which is which, so read its totals with caution. Why this matters
- Sub-category
- Programs & support
- Term
- Jul 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2024
- This vote
- $40,000
- Funding
- Special Education Funding
- Resource / site
6500-975- Vendor no.
008243- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
23-1448· agendaT.-43- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Jun 28, 2023
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2023-2024 by and between the District and Transcribing Mariners, Edmond, OK, for the latter to offer Braille transcription services by transcribing any curriculum, worksheets, educational material for students in Oakland Unified School District who are blind and use Braille, which may consist of printing material in Braille Transcription, Tactile Graphic Creation, Production in embossing, thermoform, binding, and providing digital files, via Special Education Department, for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, in an amount not to exceed $40,000.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report