89 school districts scored on the three things that decide whether a K–8 math professional-learning engagement actually closes: math need, ability to pay, and how hard it is to get bought. Built for Christine King & Dr. Sharon Labao.
Your instinct was right, and the data sharpens it in three ways.
1. New Jersey is the answer to "low scores plus money," and it is 35 minutes away. Eight NJ districts spend 109–138% of the state average per pupil while producing math proficiency at 24–49% of the state rate. Christine already told you NJ pays $4,000–5,000/day. Plainfield, Passaic, Paterson and Newark are all inside a one-hour drive of her existing NYC consultants — which means the every-other-Tuesday model she says works actually travels there. This is the highest-margin, lowest-friction expansion available to her, and it requires no new hires.
2. The single richest opportunity in the country is Alabama, and it is not about test scores at all. The Alabama Numeracy Act is funded at $114M for FY27. Its screener statute literally requires measuring "addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in word problems." The state's allocation memo says districts may spend the money on "professional development…and/or partnership with outside agencies." Alabama wrote her product description into law and attached nine figures to it. Eleven university-hosted Regional In-Service Centers — with named directors and public email addresses — are the delivery channel, which solves her travel problem: one contract, one trip, many districts.
3. The "money but not working" profile is real and measurable, and Baltimore is the proof case. Baltimore City spends 18.7% above Maryland and posts 13.3% math proficiency against a 27.1% state rate. Its reading scores rose from 22.5% to 32.9% in four years while math stayed flat — the exact signature of students who can decode a word problem but cannot model it. Its FY26 budget names "math coaches" and "small group instruction" as funded priorities, and it already bought this shape of service for grades 6–8 from Leading Educators. K–5 is wide open.
One thing to check before any of it. NYC M/WBE certification is free and unlocks a $1,000,000 noncompetitive purchase ceiling at NYCPS — against a current NYC contract capped at $1,350/day. Nothing in the discovery material suggests she holds any certification, and the firm's ownership composition isn't established either way in what we have. Confirm it on the next call; if she qualifies and is uncertified, this is the highest-return hour of work on the entire list.
Click any row for the full record, the scoring breakdown, and the procurement entry point. Sort by clicking a column header.
| # | District | St | Tier | Enroll | Math % | vs state | $/pupil | vs state | Score |
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100 points, three components. Nothing is hand-weighted after the fact — every district runs through the same formula, and you can see each district's breakdown by clicking its row.
On the "need imputed" badge. Some districts — every Alabama district, the Georgia and Texas majors, several Ohio and Missouri cities — have no retrievable current district-level math proficiency figure. State report cards there are JavaScript dashboards or Excel-only downloads. Rather than invent a number, those districts get a conservative imputed need score set at the 40th percentile of the districts we could measure (/40), and are flagged. That deliberately keeps them from outranking a district whose need is verified and severe. Treat their scores as provisional and verify the math figure before pitching — the "Data gaps" section below names the exact file to pull for each. Districts whose math figure came from a published grade range or a single grade take a 3% or 6% confidence haircut respectively, and carry their own badge.
On per-pupil spending. Federal district-level finance data (NCES F-33) is currently FY2023 — a two-year lag, and it still contains ESSER dollars, so it slightly overstates today's baseline. New Jersey and New York figures come from state filings that are far fresher (2023–24 to 2025–26). Because of that, cross-state absolute dollar comparisons are directional; the within-state divergence index is the reliable signal. A tilde (~) on a spending index means the state benchmark is approximate rather than pulled from a primary source — that applies to every New York district here, because a verified NYSED statewide per-pupil average was not retrieved. The district-level New York figures themselves are solid, taken from NYSED's own Financial Transparency Reports.
ESSER is gone — obligations ended September 2024, the liquidation window closed, and there is no residual pool. Federal K-12 funding fell roughly 22% ($24B) from 2024–25 to 2025–26, and McKinsey's district CFO survey names professional development, tutoring, summer learning and supplemental curriculum as the categories growing below inflation. That is Christine's entire product line.
But the more actionable signal cuts the other way. EdWeek Market Brief's 2026–27 purchasing survey found 4 in 10 district leaders expect PD spending to increase — more than any other budget category, while more than 1 in 10 now cap new vendor contracts at a single year. PD budgets are not collapsing; they are consolidating. Districts are cutting the number of vendors and the length of contracts while protecting the total envelope, because state math mandates now legally require the PD. The winners are providers tied to a state mandate who can prove ROI fast on a short contract. Her NYC and Richland One incumbency is a strategic asset precisely because incumbency now beats novelty.
Congress rejected the proposed eliminations in the FY26 package. Title II-A (educator PD) survived at $2.2 billion, flat for a fourth year — though the administration renewed the proposal to eliminate it in April 2026, so plan for SY2026–27 and re-check after that.
| Stream | FY26 | Fit for CKingEducation |
|---|---|---|
| Title I-A | $18.4B | Strongest. Schoolwide programs (≥40% poverty) fund PD, coaching and supplemental materials with no student-level tracking. |
| Title I §1003 school-improvement set-aside | ~$1.3B | Best-fit federal money. 7% of Title I-A, 95%+ must reach CSI/TSI districts; some states award $500K+ per school. Explicitly allows external turnaround partners and teacher coaching. Tier 4 evidence is accepted. |
| Title II-A | $2.2B | Core. Written for exactly this. |
| Title III (English learners) | $890M | Differentiated. Requires PD that is "sustained, intensive, collaborative, job-embedded" — a near-verbatim description of her model. Her Spanish and Haitian Creole tool is directly on-thesis. |
| Title IV-A | $1.4B | Secondary. ≥20% must go to "well-rounded education," which includes math. |
| IDEA Part B via CEIS | $14.2B | Districts may reserve up to 15% for early intervening services for non-special-ed students — explicitly funds teacher PD. |
| 21st CCLC | $1.33B | Afterschool and summer. Her consumable workbooks are a clean line item. |
22 states have passed math education laws since 2022, modeled on the reading-science wave. They differ enormously in whether an outside firm can be paid from them.
| # | State | Money & mandate | Vendor access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maryland | Revised PreK-12 Math Policy mandates HQIM, K-8 common assessments, three-tier MTSS, math coaching structures and job-embedded professional learning — all by SY2026–27. Zero state funding, no state provider. | Wide open. A mandate for job-embedded PD with no money and no provider is exactly the condition that forces districts to buy from outside. |
| 2 | Alabama | $114M FY27 (up from $95M, and $15M in year one), plus $27M added in May 2026 for 220 more math coaches. Coach in every K-5 school. Screener statute names word problems. AL went from last in the nation in 4th-grade math (2019) to 32nd (2024). | Partial but real. Coaches are hired from AL classrooms, but the state funds external partners for coach training, materials review and evaluation — and the LEA allocation memo names "partnership with outside agencies." |
| 3 | South Carolina | $74.5M live for new math standards implementation ($33M recurring + $41.5M for instructional materials), plus a $70M FY26–27 request. She is already in the state. | Open. This is materials money. Action: get the 180 Days workbooks onto the SCDE approved adoption list. |
| 4 | Connecticut | Public Act 26-139 requires CSDE to develop a list of professional development providers for high-quality mathematics instruction by January 1, 2027. | Open and time-boxed. A state is literally assembling the list right now. Call CSDE this month. |
| 5 | North Carolina | SB 257 (signed July 2026): 60 min daily K-8 math, screeners 3×/year, individual math improvement plans. $6M screeners + $10M HQIM adaptation + $5M intervention pilots. Low-performing schools must implement in SY2026–27. | Open. Screener and intervention-pilot money is LEA-purchased. |
| 6 | Michigan | HB 5630: $50M competitive high-impact tutoring grants "through approved partners," plus $5M math and $5M STEM supports. | Open. "Approved partners" means a vendor list exists. |
| 7 | Mississippi | SB 2294 "Mississippi Math Act" (2026): K-5 screener, Algebra Readiness Indicator, coaches for grades 2–6, HQIM adoption, aligned PD and coaching. First reporting year 2026–27. Appropriation not verified. | Greenfield. No incumbent vendor bench. Sell MDE and the MSU Research & Curriculum Unit directly — Mississippi has no RESA network. |
| 8 | Ohio | SB 19 requires free evidence-based math intervention for students scoring "limited," and improvement plans covering staffing and PD. No state appropriation — districts are told to braid Title I, II, IV, IDEA and local funds. | Open. Mandate without a state provider. |
| 9 | New Jersey | No enacted math law, but live money: Learning Acceleration Program High-Impact Tutoring grants, $7.5M/cohort, $20K–$400K per district, explicitly covering mathematics, eligible where grades 3–8 proficiency is below 50%. Cohort 3 closed Feb 2026; watch for Cohort 4 around Jan–Feb 2027. | Open, recurring. Also watch NJDOE's IMPACT grant — currently literacy-only, but it covers 100% of initial PD costs. If it extends to math, it is a perfect structure for her. |
| 10 | New York / NYC | "Back to Basics in Math" mandates evidence-based K-5 methods with self-certification by Sept 2027 — funded at only $4M statewide, routed to the teachers' union. But NYC Solves expanded $17.3M in May 2026, bringing an elementary math curriculum mandate to D5 Manhattan (i-Ready), D11/D12 Bronx (Illustrative Mathematics) and D25 Queens (Amplify Desmos), starting fall 2026. | District-level only. Critically: her word-problem work is complementary to IM, i-Ready and Amplify Desmos, not competitive. Position as implementation support for the curricula the city just mandated. The constraint is her $1,350 day rate, not access. |
| 11 | Texas | HB 2 Math Achievement Academies mandatory for all K-3 math teachers, coaches and interventionists by SY2030–31. Districts pay. Content is TEA's; pilot SY2026–27. | Opens SY2027–28, when the "local implementation option" arrives — that is the pathway external providers used in the Reading Academies precedent. Meanwhile, sell products against the $171.84/student Instructional Materials Allotment (PD is not an allowable IMA use). |
| 12 | Georgia | HB 1030 "Math Matters Act" (2026): 60 min daily upper-elementary math; educator prep realigned to four strands of proficiency including real-world problem solving. No math appropriation. | Mandate without money — sell against Title I/CSI set-asides and general funds. The FY27 coaching money in Georgia is literacy (HB 1193); do not misread it as math. |
| — | Louisiana | Act 260 requires ~50 hours of numeracy PD for all grades 4–8 math teachers — delivered by LDOE itself on its own platform. | Closed channel. Deprioritize for PD. But 50 hours of asynchronous content with no job-embedded follow-through is a textbook implementation gap. Lead with "you've done Act 260 — now make it show up in Tier 1 instruction," and sell workbooks. |
The federal micro-purchase threshold rose from $10,000 to $15,000, and the simplified acquisition threshold from $250,000 to $350,000. Below the micro-purchase threshold, no competitive quotes are required at all. Districts that are low-risk auditees may self-certify a threshold up to $50,000 — and Texas LEAs may self-certify to $99,999 with TEA notification. Most federal programs directors do not know this; sending them the 2 CFR 200.320 citation is a genuine favor and makes her the helpful vendor.
| State | Threshold | Are PD services even covered? |
|---|---|---|
| New York (non-NYC) | $20,000 purchase contracts | No — professional services are exempt from GML §103. Only local board policy applies. |
| New Jersey | $53,000 with a QPA / $39,000 without; quotes at $7,950 / $5,850 | Instructional consulting is generally treated as an exempt professional service under N.J.S.A. 18A:18A-5, awardable by board resolution. Confirm with counsel — not re-verified. |
| North Carolina | $90,000 (goods only) | Services are not covered by G.S. 143-129 at all. |
| Alabama | $15,000 | Strong exemption for consultants and "individuals possessing a high degree of professional skill where the personality of the individual plays a decisive part." |
| California | $119,100 (eff. 1/1/2026) | Services are covered, but the ceiling is so high that virtually no PD engagement triggers bidding. |
| Mississippi | $5,000–$75,000 = two written quotes; >$75,000 = advertised | Professional services not addressed. Copyrighted educational supplemental materials and SaaS may be procured via RFQualifications — a direct path for the workbooks and digital tool. |
| Pennsylvania | $13,200–$24,500 = three quotes; >$24,500 = advertised bid | Standard. |
| Texas | $50,000 aggregate per 12 months | Hardest of the set. The professional-services exemption is an enumerated list (architect, attorney, CPA, engineer, fiscal agent) and a math PD firm should not assume it qualifies. This is exactly why the Texas co-ops exist — interlocal contracts are a listed compliant method. |
| Georgia | No state competitive-bid statute for LEA goods/services found | Local board policy governs. |
| South Carolina / Connecticut / Maryland | Not verified | Districts adopt their own codes. Pull the target district's policy from BoardDocs before pricing. |
The structural insight for a firm with a $1,350–$5,000 day rate: run a school-by-school motion, not a district-by-district one. A $12,000 engagement bought by P.S. 123 from its own school budget and a $12,000 engagement bought by P.S. 456 are two procurements, not one $24,000 procurement. Splitting a single district-level buy into pieces is an audit finding; selling to genuinely distinct buyers is not. Also keep consumable workbooks (a goods purchase) and coaching (a service procurement) on separate POs — different funding codes, different approvers, and bundling can push you over a threshold for no reason.
| # | Vehicle | Realistic? | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NYC DOE MTAC 1026 (already held) | Already in | Zero acquisition cost and materially under-monetized. Comparable awards run $30K–$90K/year over five years. |
| 2 | Choice Partners (Harris County Dept. of Education) | High | Has the exact category: Curriculum, Instructional Programs, Assessment Materials. Piggyback-friendly nationally. Curriculum category recompetes around 2027. |
| 3 | TIPS (lead agency Region 8 ESC) | High | Has "Consulting and Other Related Services." Low barrier, huge K-12 membership, strong in TX/AR/OK and the South. |
| 4 | BuyBoard (TASB) | High | Free registration, flat 2% fee, transparent 45-day posting. |
| 5 | Rivet Education PLPG | High | Not a co-op, but functions as one: the closest thing to a national credential for PD providers. Several SEAs use it as the pre-vetted list, which turns "who should we hire?" into "who's on the guide?" Illustrative Mathematics is a certified provider. |
| — | E&I Cooperative | Skip | K-12 categories are athletics, facilities, food, IT and interiors. No instructional or PD category exists. |
Christine's binding constraint is that outside NY metro and South Carolina she cannot run the recurring every-other-Tuesday model. Regional service agencies solve this directly: one contract puts her in front of many districts on one trip.
New Caney ISD's RFP 149.26, "Fall Contracted Professional Development Services," ran March–May 2026 for a term through August 2028. It covers 25 subject areas including mathematics, requires alignment to the math TEKS, and asks vendors to submit bios, training agendas, availability and an hourly/daily/per-presentation rate card. Dozens of Texas ISDs run this same annual solicitation between February and May. It is a pre-qualified vendor pool, not a single project — win once, take purchase orders for three years. Search "contracted professional development services RFP" plus IonWave each spring.
Title I §1003 school-improvement money, the biggest checks available to her, legally requires evidence-based interventions rated on ESSA's four tiers. This matters more than it sounds, because it is the difference between being fundable and being a nice conversation.
Where she is honestly today: the 140-participant evaluation is not Tier 3. It is internal, has no comparison group, and does not control for selection bias. The planned fall Newman Error Analysis pre/mid/post collection, as currently designed, is also not Tier 3 — single-group pre/post cannot support a correlational study with statistical controls.
What she can have in 30 days: a clean Tier 4. A well-specified logic model plus documented ongoing effort to examine effects is the Tier 4 standard, and she already has the second half. Tier 4 is accepted for most school-improvement purchases and is what most schools actually select.
Sequence: Digital Promise Research-Based Design certification now (weeks, cheap, maps to Tier 4) → redesign the fall study as above (free) → LearnPlatform "Evidence as a Service" or Leanlab to run and analyze it (spring 2027) → submit to Evidence for ESSA at Johns Hopkins (free, and it publishes into the national database districts actually search). Context worth knowing: only about 15% of the 2,135 products in the ISTE EdTech Index hold any formal evidence certification. A Tier 4 badge is genuinely differentiating, and it is achievable this quarter.
On the call this was left open, with a preference for the product if the two came out even. They do not come out even — but the answer is a sequence, not a choice.
Lead with services where a state mandate is paying, lead with product everywhere else. The state math laws that have real money attached — Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Michigan, Mississippi — are funding coaching, professional development and instructional materials, not software. Maryland, Ohio and Connecticut mandate job-embedded PD and coaching with no state provider at all. In those nine states, the professional-services side is the funded, procurable, mandate-backed offer, and it is not close.
Everywhere else — the fly-in markets where the every-other-Tuesday model breaks — Christine's own instinct holds: the product gets you in the door, it is easier to manage, there are fewer variables than sending a human, and consultancy follows. Two specific wedges make this concrete. In Texas, the $171.84-per-student Instructional Materials Allotment explicitly funds materials and technology but not PD — so the workbooks and digital tool have a dedicated funding line the PD does not. In Mississippi, state law lets districts procure "copyrighted educational supplemental materials and software as a service" through a qualifications process rather than a sealed bid.
The multilingual feature is worth more than it looks. Title III money requires PD that is "sustained, intensive, collaborative, job-embedded" — a description of her model — and the tool's Spanish and Haitian Creole modes turn a nice-to-have into a scored differentiator. Two places to point it: Brockton, Massachusetts has one of the largest Haitian Creole-speaking student populations in the country and posts 19% math against a 41% state rate; Santa Ana, San Bernardino and the Texas border ESCs are the Spanish-dominant equivalents. Notably, no Southern district surfaced with a material Haitian Creole population — lead with Spanish in Texas and Georgia, and save the Creole asset for the Northeast and Florida.
| # | Action | Cost | Why it ranks here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apply for NYC M/WBE certification (SBS) and open a PASSPort account | Free | Unlocks a $1,000,000 noncompetitive purchase ceiling at NYCPS. Confirm the three eligibility gates first (see the Grants tab). Nothing else comes close. |
| 2 | Apply for NYS MWBE through Empire State Development, and SBA WOSB at certifications.sba.gov | Free | 30% participation goal on NYSED grant contracts creates real subcontract demand. WOSB pairs with the SAM registration already in progress. |
| 3 | Redesign the fall Newman study: matched comparison group, independent standardized outcome, baseline covariates | ~Free | Must happen before data collection or the ESSA Tier 3 window closes for a year. |
| 4 | Email the three Alabama Regional In-Service Center directors named above | Free | $114M state math program whose statute names word problems and whose allocation memo names outside partners. Pitch a 3-day summer institute priced under Alabama's $15,000 bid threshold. |
| 5 | Work the New Jersey drive-time core: Plainfield, Passaic, Paterson, Newark | Travel only | Highest-margin expansion available. Newark first — it runs periodic vendor-training workshops and an eSupplier portal, a documented low-friction way in. Plainfield second: at 10,110 students, one engagement covers every K-8 teacher. |
| 6 | Call Connecticut CSDE about the Public Act 26-139 math PD provider list | Free | Statutory deadline is January 1, 2027. Getting on a state list before it exists is the cheapest competitive advantage available. |
| 7 | Build the Tier 4 logic model and Evidence Statement; submit to Digital Promise Research-Based Design | Low | Weeks, not months. Unblocks Title II-A and Title IV-A purchases immediately. |
| 8 | Pair Baltimore City and Prince George's County in one Amtrak trip | Travel only | Baltimore's FY26 budget names math coaches; PGCPS has a board-level math roadmap awaiting budget alignment and publishes a procurement forecast, which is how you get ahead of the RFP. |
| 9 | Register as a vendor with Choice Partners, TIPS, BuyBoard and NCPA; apply to Rivet Education PLPG | Free / unknown | Pipeline for FY27–28, and the compliant path into Texas where the $50,000 aggregate threshold is otherwise the hardest in the country. |
| 10 | Get the 180 Days workbooks onto the SCDE approved instructional materials adoption list | Free | South Carolina has $74.5M live and $70M requested for instructional materials. She is already in the state. |
| 11 | Defer SBA 8(a) | — | It is a nine-year, once-per-lifetime asset worth essentially zero in the K-12 market. Do not burn it here. |
A wrong proficiency number in a proposal is worse than a missing one, because she will pitch on it and a superintendent will correct her in the room. These are the known gaps and exactly where to close each one.
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CKingEducation is a for-profit company, and in the grant world that is the single fact that decides everything. Private foundations overwhelmingly restrict grants to 501(c)(3) public charities — confirmed explicitly for Pinkerton, Altman, Tiger, Charles Hayden and Turrell. Most US Department of Education discretionary competitions restrict prime applicants to districts, states, universities and nonprofits. A conventional "grants list" for a company like hers is mostly a list of things she cannot apply for.
So the useful question is not "what grants exist" but "where does the for-profit wall actually have doors." There are four, and they are very different from each other:
Sorted by priority band, then by deadline. Click any row for the full record — eligibility, what applying requires, honest odds, and the link. Confirmed dates come from a primary source; projected dates are extrapolated from a prior cycle and are not reliable.
| Priority | Opportunity | Type | Can she apply? | Award | Next date | Effort |
|---|
Everything with a date, in order. Treat projected entries as reminders to go check, not as deadlines to plan around.
| # | Action | By when | Why it ranks here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add NYC MTAC R1254 (plus R1149, R1179, R1151) through the NYC Vendor Portal | This month | Permanently open, no deadline risk, she is already a NYC vendor, and it matches both her PD and coaching lines. Nothing else on this page has a better return per hour. |
| 2 | Email Akilah Nelson and Shirley Huang at IES about ED/IES SBIR positioning | Now — the window closes when a solicitation posts | Federal procurement rules bar program officers from advising during an open competition. FY2026 closed in June and FY2027 isn't out. Right now is the only time she can talk to them. |
| 3 | Register for Tools Competition updates | Cycle launches September 2026 | Explicitly admits companies. A for-profit visual math platform reached the Growth ($150K) finals in the 2026 cycle. Phase 1 is a cheap abstract. |
| 4 | Decide on Louisiana — Accelerate high-dosage tutoring provider list | Closes September 30, 2026 | The only open state approved-list window in the country. K-5 math, no ESSA tier gate, requires a materials package she already has. But it demands a 4:1 school-day student tutoring model she does not currently sell, plus a Louisiana certificate of authority. Real work — decide fast rather than drift past it. |
| 5 | Submit an NSF SBIR Project Pitch | Within two weeks, for the Nov 4 deadline | Six hours of work for a shot at $305K. Invitation takes 1–2 months and carries to the March 2027 deadline if November slips. |
| 6 | Finish SAM registration, then get the SBC Control Number from the SBA company registry | Before any SBIR solicitation posts | Separate from SAM and commonly missed. Without it a proposal is rejected unreviewed. |
| 7 | Email Accelerate (info@accelerate.us) to confirm a 2027–28 Call for Effective Technology | September 2026 | Highest-odds fit on the list — she meets every hard criterion, and the grant pays for the rigorous evaluation she currently lacks. The window is two weeks long and easy to miss. |
| 8 | Get on Connecticut's notification list — Paul Castiglione for the RFI:009 reissue, Irene Parisi about RFI:008 | This month, then check weekly | Connecticut is the only state where list inclusion is legally required before a district can spend on you. She missed RFI:008 by two months. Missing the reissue costs her the state. |
| 9 | Register as an Alabama state vendor and complete E-Verify | Now — takes weeks | $114M of Numeracy Act money and a demonstrated habit of building approved-provider lists. The registrations are the bottleneck, not the application. |
| 10 | One email to txmathacademies@tea.texas.gov asking whether non-ESC for-profits can become Authorized Providers | Any time | A single answer decides whether Texas is a top-tier target or a dead end. |
| 11 | Apply for the Amber Grant; complete two Verizon Digital Ready courses | Aug 31 monthly; Dec 7 for Verizon | Small money, but roughly five hours total for two live shots at $10,000 each. Background activity, not strategy. |
| 12 | Start one district-as-applicant conversation each in NYC and Columbia | September | Most realistic dollars per hour of anything here. She writes the program narrative; the principal or district grants officer submits it; she is the named vendor in the budget. |
Worth stating plainly so nobody spends a week on these.
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Nothing is open in the five priority districts — but two things are open in Texas, and one of them is the best-fitting opportunity found anywhere in this research. Every solicitation across Newark, Plainfield, Paterson, Rochester and Atlantic City that fits her model closed between March and June 2026. That is the calendar, not a research failure: New Jersey and New York districts run instructional-services procurement from January to June for a July 1 fiscal start, so August is the quietest month of the year in the Northeast.
Widening the search to national SLED data changed the picture. Fort Bend ISD (RFP 26-081KS) closes September 8 and ESC Region 13 (2027-01) closes August 25. Neither is a single-award competition — both establish pre-approved provider lists that member campuses and districts buy from without further solicitation. That is the right shape of vehicle for a twelve-person firm: one proposal, multi-year demand.
The rest of the work is unchanged. The next ninety days are about registration, relationships, and getting written into specifications before they are published. Ten QRFs are now on file — two open, eight closed — because the near-misses are the 2027 pursuit list, and documenting the decision now is what makes the recompete winnable.
Ten opportunities scored against her CBP using the GovPointe 100-point pursuit matrix — two open
today, eight closed and documented as dated 2027 pursuit targets. Each has a house-style PDF in
GovPointe/C King Education/ and a row in the QRF Tracker. Click for the full record.
Read the closed scores with the timing in mind. Compliance / Eligibility is worth 15 of the 100 points and scores 5 when the window has passed, so a closed opportunity carries a roughly 12-point penalty that says nothing about fit. Woodbridge scores 62 overall and 90 on capability — the highest of any solicitation evaluated for this client.
| Opportunity | Agency | Sol # | Score | Fit | Verdict | Due / closed |
|---|
Two open and worth bidding, both in Texas. Neither was findable by searching the five priority districts — they came out of national SLED data, and both are pre-approved-provider vehicles rather than single-award competitions.
| Agency | Solicitation | Due | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Bend ISD (TX) | RFP 26-081KS — Professional Development and Consulting Services Pre-approved pool · 78,000 students, 83 campuses · auto-renewing | Sep 8, 2026 | Yes — 76/100. Pricing schedule names A15 Mathematics PD, B5 Coaching of Coaches, F1 Participant Workbooks. Pre-proposal call Aug 20; questions close Aug 21. |
| ESC Region 13 (TX) | 2027-01 — Research, Evaluation, TA & Professional Development QPL Qualified Provider List running to 8/31/2031 | Aug 25, 2026 | Partially — 63/100. Bid the professional-learning scope only; she has no research or evaluation capability. Question window already closed. |
Open in the priority districts, and why none of it fits
| District | Solicitation | Due | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | 10192 — Public and Non-Public Schools IEP Related Services | Aug 19, 2026 | No — OT/PT/speech/counseling under IEPs |
| Newark | 10318 Library Manager Software · 10319 Family Engagement Platform · 10329 Event Rental Supplies | Sep 3, 2026 | No — 10319 is parent communications, not instructional. Do not stretch to bid it. |
| Rochester | RFP-RVC-070226-SRM — Student Records Management Platform | Aug 18, 2026 | No — records-management SaaS |
| Paterson | PPS-306-27 — Uniform Apparel & Screen Printing | — | No |
| Plainfield · Atlantic City | Bid listings are JavaScript-rendered and defeated automated retrieval. Inaccessible, not confirmed empty — both warrant a five-minute manual browser check. | ||
Rochester caveat: an aggregator reports three open RCSD opportunities; only the records-management one is identifiable without a paid subscription. Registering on BidNet Direct resolves this immediately and is the only distribution channel RCSD uses.
| When | What | Action now |
|---|---|---|
| Sep–Oct 2026 | Paterson C&I conversation, before November spec-writing | Request the meeting. Lead with the School 18 / School 21 bilingual expansion going live Sept 1. |
| Sept 2026 | Plainfield i-Ready contract expires 9/30 ($829,290 over 3 years) | Call Curriculum & Instruction about implementation support. An expiring ~$276K/yr math-and-reading contract forces a board conversation. |
| Sept 2026 | Atlantic City board resolution cycle | Deliver a scoped math PD proposal under $53,000 to C&I. Math is uncontested there. |
| Nov 2026 | Paterson FY2028 specifications written | Be in the room before this. |
| Jan–Mar 2027 | Paterson bids received; RFP-429 ESL program recurs | Vendor Information Form + W-9 on file well before. |
| Apr 2027 | NJSBA Virtual Tutoring cooperative recompete | Only as a content/tutor-training subcontractor to a tutoring operator. Line that partner up now. |
| Apr–May 2027 | Newark 10264 recompete — the named capture target | npssourcing credentials, archived 10264 spec, full NJ vendor packet, evidence position fixed. |
| Apr 2027 | Newark 10243-equivalent (math materials + PD, non-VR) | Have the workbook and digital-tool line ready to quote. |
| Spring–Jul 2027 | Rochester curriculum & instructional-services RFPs | Register on BidNet Direct now — it is the only channel. |
| Feb–Mar 2027 | Greenville County Schools 326-57 recurs — mathematics PD & coaching support, largest district in SC | Register as a vendor. Request the 326-57 award result. Rebuild the offer as cohort-based train-the-coach, priced per cohort. |
| May–Jun 2027 | Woodbridge Township RFP28-xx — math MTSS intervention coaching & PD. The best title-level match found anywhere. | NJ vendor packet now. Request the archived RFP27-04 spec and award result. C&I conversation in autumn 2026. |
| Jul–Aug 2027 | Chester County SD 26-0715 recurs — math & science professional learning and coaching | Register now; the notice window is short. Decide which SC-resident consultants would deliver before proposing. |
| Aug 2027 | ESC Region 13 QPL annual re-opening (if not qualified this month) | Better to qualify now — the current list runs to 2031. |
| Oct 2027 onward | Fort Bend ISD pool auto-renews annually; new applicants admitted at re-solicitation | If she is on the list this year, this becomes a renewal rather than a bid. |
None of the 2027 pursuits are winnable without these, and every one of them takes weeks.
Set-aside note: Newark's set-aside categories are design consulting, landscaping, paving, trophies and apparel — professional development is not set aside, so there is no certification gate to bidding there. Certifications still help, but they are not blocking.
Newark BOE public notices (legal-ad archive) · Newark 10264 legal ad · Newark 10243 legal ad · NBOE vendor workshop deck · npssourcing.com · Paterson purchasing · Paterson 2026-27 Purchasing Manual · Atlantic City June 18, 2026 board agenda · Plainfield purchasing · BidNet Direct — RCSD · NJSBA RFP 2026-02
Every named contact the research surfaced — mathematics supervisors, curriculum chiefs, Title I directors, bilingual leads, purchasing agents and superintendents across 21 districts, plus the state, regional and federal contacts. Filter by district to get a single school's call sheet, or open any district in Where to sell to see the same list in context. Add one at a time, paste a block, or load a saved file.
One contact per line. Fields separated by commas, tabs, or pipes, in this order:
Name, Title, Organisation, Email, Phone, State, Segment, District, Note
Only Name and Organisation are required — leave the rest empty and keep the separators, or just stop early. Pasting straight from a spreadsheet column selection works.