HISD vendor with Gifted and Talented program ends partnership after months of nonpayment

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Leaders at a software company shut down access to their program at Houston Independent School District after the district didn’t renew their contract but kept using the program.

“We kept the service on as an act of good faith. These people are our partners. And, you know, we take this seriously and really our interest is the kids,” said Ivan Krieg, the Executive Vice President of Renzulli Learning . “We left it on for months in hopes that, you know, we would get a positive result in this case. We didn’t. And that’s unfortunate, but that led to us turning it off.

“We greatly value what we did,” DiMauro said. “This was our moonshot. You know, so we pulled this off for Houston so they could have, like up to 30,000 students uploading these projects in the course of a couple of days.”they ended the partnership as they look at the upcoming budget. “The site license pricing does vary based upon the number of students, but it will probably be in the neighborhood of, you know, 5 to $7,000 as opposed to $30,000,” explains DiMauro.

Screenshot of Meyerland Performing & Visual Arts Middle School's website sharing Renzulli Learning partnership.Meyerland Performing & Visual Arts Middle School, as of this writing, has the internet-based company on its website under its Gifted and Talented program.

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