Indiana's ESSA waiver ties high school accountability to AP, SAT/ACT/CLT, dual credit, credentials, work-based learning, and data systems. Vendors now have to prove where they fit.
The Curve Weekly: The nation’s largest district pauses software purchases as federal funding, incumbent renewals, and stalled literacy gains reshape the K–12 market.
The Curve Weekly: Growing scrutiny of noncompetitive renewals could create new openings for challengers and force incumbents to defend pricing, performance, and switching costs.
The moratorium fight shows which AI products may be blocked, narrowed, or cleared as districts separate student-facing risk from staff-facing workflow relief.
District Demand Is Still There. The Rules Are Changing.
The Curve Weekly: From California’s delayed funding fight to Massachusetts’ literacy mandate and Buffalo’s structured-literacy rebid, vendors face a more controlled K–12 buying environment.
Canvas has been breached twice by the same actor in eight months. The market is open. Here is how long it stays that way, the only move worth making, and where to point the spear.
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