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The Oxnard School District board has signed off on two contracts, ending a dispute with the Oxnard Neighborhood for Learning steering committee.
The Interface nonprofit group has provided services for Oxnard school families for more than four months with an understanding that the Neighborhood for Learning committee had selected it to do the work.
The school board, however, is responsible for ratifying the contract and had refused to do so. Trustees said they were concerned that El Centrito de la Colonia, a nonprofit agency based in Oxnard that held the contract before Interface, was not treated appropriately.
Trustees, however, finally signed off on two new agreements Wednesday.
Neighborhood for Learning will contract with Interface for services such as case management and resource and referral activities for Oxnard school families. Interface will be paid $85,750 through the end of the fiscal year in June. Under a different contract, El Centrito will provide services such as outreach and parent education workshops and be paid $20,000.
Neighborhood for Learning is funded by First 5 Ventura County with money from a tobacco tax, approved by voters to support early childhood development and school readiness programs.
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