When Districts Decide They Want Less Edtech
The Curve Weekly: A Pennsylvania district’s low-screen shift highlights a new renewal risk for vendors serving early grades.
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Funding Opens. Usage Tightens.
The Curve Weekly: New grant windows and state initiatives are creating opportunities just as districts become more selective about how technology earns its place in classrooms.
States Take Control of the School Safety Market
The Curve Weekly: The $93 million SSE program shifts the opportunity from district urgency to statewide procurement and governance.
Legacy District Contracts Face a Market Test
The Curve Weekly: Growing scrutiny of noncompetitive renewals could create new openings for challengers and force incumbents to defend pricing, performance, and switching costs.
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The Science-of-Reading Market Enters Its Accountability Phase
Stalled K–2 gains are pushing districts beyond policy alignment toward tighter vendor consolidation, stronger implementation support, and harder proof of outcomes.
New York Freezes the Ed-Tech Sales Cycle
The Curve Weekly: The nation’s largest district pauses software purchases as federal funding, incumbent renewals, and stalled literacy gains reshape the K–12 market.
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Has OCR Changed the Buying Problem?
Federal scrutiny is creating new demand for secure case management, hiring controls, data reconciliation, and compliance services.
The Adequacy Funding Opportunity
The Curve Weekly: A major K–12 funding increase is concentrating near-term demand in districts with the largest resource gaps.