K.-65 17-2612 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Keith Welch, Alameda, CA, for the latter to provide statistical analysis on a host of contributing factors to student literacy growth, including school and teacher characteristics, District and community intervention strategies, and educational technology, for struggling readers in grades K-5; and iterate on work in response to feedback from literacy stakeholders, via the Research, Assessment and Data Department, for the period of December 18, 2017 through June 30, 2018, in an amount not to exceed $6,500.00.