Yes, the GoFundMe is still alive for this FOIA request from the DOE! We are 1/3rd of the way there, but help is still needed! Please consider donating in the spirit of transparency. House Bill 50 has NOT been signed yet, Smarter Balanced is STILL happening next year, and the DOE has not contacted me about this FOIA at all. We need answers, especially about how Delaware even entered the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and what the basis was for American Institutes for Research going from DCAS to SBAC.
The Delaware Department of Justice recently answered a complaint surrounding a FOIA I submitted to the Delaware Department of Education on March 6th, 2015. This FOIA asked for the following:
“– the Delaware Department of Education’s contracts (whether they are awarded contracts, cooperative contracts, set aside contracts, sole source contracts, or recently closed contracts, including any and all RFPs, addendums, award letters, and change orders) agreements, pacts, communications (whether in email or written correspondence, email should be in To: formats and cc: formats between any DOE employee with the below companies or consortiums) with the following companies or consortiums: American Institutes for Research (or if they are listed under AIR or Amer Institutes for Research), Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (or if they are listed under SBAC, SB, Smarter, Smarter Balanced, or Smarter Balanced Assessment), and Data Recognition Corporation. If available, I ask that this information be provided in a PDF…
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