Pays Reading Partners up to $12,500 for volunteer reading help at Lockwood STEAM Academy

Reading Partners will give about 40 third through fifth graders, referred by staff, reading help twice a week from a trained volunteer using a research-based curriculum, with assessments to measure progress. The agreement runs from September 1, 2025 through May 28, 2026. The Board is approving it after the fact.

Plain-English summary written by AI from the official text. AI summary · amounts checked against official text

Vendor / partner: Reading Partners · Oakland, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Sep 1, 2025 – May 28, 2026
This vote: $12,500
Schools: Lockwood STEAM Academy
Funding: Unrestricted Supplemental
Resource / site: 0002-160
Vendor no.: 003539
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 25-2028 · agenda O.-51
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Sep 10, 2025

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2025-2026 by and between the District and Reading Partners (RP), Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide approximately 40 third through fifth graders, referred by staff, reading intervention services, twice a week through a trained volunteer, who will facilitate researched and proven curriculum; give assessments to measure progress at Lockwood STEAM Academy, for the period of September 1, 2025 through May 28, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $12,500.00.

History

Sep 10, 2025 Adopted on the General Consent Report

This is an independent project created to provide transparency to the OUSD Community, and is not affiliated with Oakland Unified District. All data used to create the Consent Report Tracker is made public by Legistar, OUSD's official platform for posting legislative records. Plain-English summaries are written by AI with narrow parameters based upon the official text of the reports. Read about how all this works.