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Hi, Member Blakeslee. Just to try to orient you a little bit about this, in 2025, Kirsten had sent an email out to high school principals the cabinet and had a discussion about the fact that, um, College Board had announced their decision to sunset the SpringBoard curriculum, which was something that we had already entered into a long contract with. But this was about halfway into the actual 6-year adoption of that curriculum, so there was an awareness piece of like, we have to make a decision as to what we're going to do, and that it at each budget inter— uh, interval where we talk about our budget in detail, the bids, we will put forward that we have curriculum adoptions that we have to do by state and board statute or policy that says every 6 years we have to review curriculum and decide if we're going to stay with what we have or if we're going to try to go through an adoption process. And what we're doing is we have put this out in our budget for a number of years, but because it's a large ticket item It usually, with our budget shortfalls and all of our concerns, it gets lined itemed out and we basically move it down. And what we're, what we're facing right now is the fact that in these cycles of curriculum adoptions that happen about every 6 years, the ideal plan is that you space them out so that you don't end up having this traffic jam coming to a head.

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