17-1265 Approval by the Board of Education of an Agreement between District and Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA, an evaluation subcontractor, for the US Department of Education, to conduct an evaluation of the District participation in an Academic Language Intervention Study, randomizing schools to treatment and business as usual conditions between schools that implement the Word Generation Elementary Program (and schools that do not), for the term July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2019, via the English Language Learners and Multilingual Achievement Office, with District receiving $24,000 for its participation in said study.