"That's something the school committee charged us with and the steering committee took very seriously," she said.
Jennings told committee members that district officials had talked with representatives of the four firms that produce the programs to make sure the components will be compatible.
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District officials acknowledge training teachers over the summer and during the school year to use these programs will be time-consuming and expensive.
For example, it takes a year and costs $17,000 to train a teacher to be a "literacy coordinator" capable of training other teachers in how to implement the Literary Collaborative program.