At the behest of a reader who was upset to find their district using Common Core compliant technology tools and materials and that a brand new contract for more was recently completed. I did a Freedom of Information request for Guilford County Schools (GCS) regarding “Discovery Education”.

In response to my Freedom of Information request, I received a contract from GCS that detailed spending on streaming digital media for K-12. The contract total was just under $160k at $159, 802.00 for licensing. Was this done with Race To the Top money or public funds?

Discovery Education has aligned their streaming curricula to the Common Core.  Parents should be aware that Guilford schools are using this material. Since it is streaming and done in the classroom, the child is seeing it and not the parents.  Parents should also read the Discovery Education Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use for the Streaming feature.  Not to be missed is their ‘Curriculum Team‘, which includes “State Common Core Task Force” members.