The Hillsdale College “Grooming” of Jordan Adams
A month ago, hardly anyone had heard of Jordan Adams. But now in Sarasota and increasingly elsewhere, he has become a household name as the Sarasota County School Board chair Bridget Ziegler seeks to turn the keys to the district over to him. But who is Jordan Adams? As this timeline will show, this 31-year-old Hillsdale College graduate and civics teacher, was chosen by Hillsdale College president, Dr. Larry Arnn and his faculty buddies, while Adams was just a second-year undergrad, to be on the ground floor and a major player in Arnn’s drive to dismantle public education and replace it with privatized classical education.
As this timeline will demonstrate, Adams was talked into abandoning his plan to go into think tank policy work to become a classical civics teacher and become Arnn’s right-hand man in creating the Patriotic curriculum both for Hillsdale College and President Trump. Adams then went on to become a major player under Arnn and his daughter Dr. Kathleen Arnn O’Toole tutelage in Florida where he played an important role in rewriting the Florida civics’ standards and curriculum around Hillsdale Christian Nationalists lines. The big question is how good of a job did Arnn and the Hillsdale crew do in grooming Adams? If the shoddy, fly-by-night state of Vermilion Education is any indication, Arnn and company did a lousy job. That might be a saving grace for Sarasota children and public education in general if the Sarasota School Board votes to support the Vermilion contract.
Timeline
May 1991: Jordan Christopher Adams is born to Sharon Marie Adams and James Christopher Adams in Highland, Michigan.
2000: Larry Paul Arnn (born October 8, 1952) becomes president of Hillsdale College, a small private Christian college in Michigan that is one of the most conservative colleges in the US. Arnn earlier co-founded and served as president of the ultra-conservative Claremont Institute. Arnn is active in multiple rightwing foundations and organizations including serving on the board of directors of the Heritage Foundation, a sponsor of the July 2022 Moms for Liberty Summit, and is a member of the highly secretive Council for National Policy.
Sept. 2009—May 2013: Adams attends Hillsdale College graduating with a BA degree in 2013. While an undergrad, his English professor Dr. David Whalen, along with his political science professors and the Barney Charter School Initiative team urged him to consider a career in education. “I had originally thought I would go into think tank work,” he said. “I hadn’t considered teaching until my junior year” Adams said that he began working with the BCSI program during his sophomore year.
Sept. 2010: The Barney Charter School Initiative (BCSI) is founded in 2010 and work on the K-12 1776 curriculum begins.
Sept. 2010: Adams gets involved with BCSI from its beginning. He explains in a BCSI Staff Spotlight interview that he had a relationship with the BCSI program since the beginning of its establishment during his sophomore year of college. “Once I decided I wanted to do something with education, I started talking to the BSI people,” he explains. He even interned with the program during summer breaks.
Sept. 2012: The Barney Charter School Initiative opens two classical charter schools, providing curricular, instructional, and governance assistance.
August 2013: Arnn comes under fire for referring to people of color as “dark ones” when citing a letter he received from the state. “They said we violated the standards for diversity because we didn’t have enough dark ones, I guess is what they meant.”
Sept. 2013—2016: Adams attends the University of Dallas, a very conservative private, Catholic college, receiving a Master of Humanities degree in May 2016. Hillsdale College President, Larry Arnn’s daughter, then Kathleen Arnn, had earlier attended and graduated from the University of Dallas receiving a BA degree; she later as Kathleen Arnn O’Toole becomes Adams’ boss. Adams has had no coursework or training in education.
2013—2016: Adams begins teaching, first as a substitute teacher while attending graduate school and later as a full-time teacher at the Barney Charter School Initiative school, Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville. Founders Classical Academy is a large corporate chain of classical schools, largely in Texas. Kathleen Arnn was the principal of a nearby Founders Classical Academy.
2013: Adams explains his focus on teaching. “I mostly focus on the history and Latin curricula, figuring out how things are taught in a fourth-grade or eleventh-grade classroom,” he said. “When people think of K-12 classical schools, we want them to think Hillsdale.”
2013—2016: Adams’ future wife, Mary Catherine Meyer, becomes a student worker in Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn’s college office. She remains working for Larry Arnn for three years. Meyer also worked as a reporter and is now employed as a freelance writer.
May 16, 2016: Adams is awarded a Master of Humanities degree from the University of Dallas.
2016—2018: Adams is employed as a teacher at Saint Agnes School, a classical Catholic school in St. Paul Minnesota. During this same time span, his future wife, Mary Catherine Meyer, attended the University of St. Thomas, also in St. Paul, during this same period receiving a MA in Catholic Studies in May 2018.
June 2018—March 2023: Adams returns to Hillsdale College as an employee with the Barney Charter School Initiative where he engaged in teacher training at BCSI schools (in 2020, he said he had visited 200 classrooms. While Adams is training teachers, he has had no formal education or training in education. Sometime during this period, he marries Meyer who now goes by Mary Catherine Adams.
Jan. 16, 2019: Arnn is part of a Naples-based panel, along with Erika Donalds, a leading Florida school privatization advocate who operates a for-profit management company that sets up Hillsdale-affiliated classical charter schools throughout Florida. The event, called “A More Perfect Union: Liberty & Learning,” was sponsored by the Florida Citizens Alliance, an LGBTQ+ hate group that promotes book banning.
Jan. 31, 2019: Newly elected Gov. DeSantis issued an executive order called “Raising the Bar for Civic Literacy” that recommended identifying opportunities “to equip high school graduates with sufficient knowledge of civics, particularly the principles reflected in the United States Constitution…” Within two weeks of this executive order, GOP State Rep/ Vance A. Aloupis, Jr. (Miami-Dade), filled a bill on civics education. Sen. Kelli Stargel (Lake and Polk counties) filed a similar bill. (See below for details on the bills.)
June 26, 2019: Civics Education Bill (CS/HB 807) was signed by Gov. DeSantis which, as stated in the bill summary required “civics education instructional materials to be reviewed and approved by the Commissioner of Education on consultation with certain entities and individuals.” These entities, named in the bill, included Hillsdale College (as well as four other organizations including the Koch-founded Bill of Rights Institute). The bill passed both houses of the legislation with only one dissenting House vote. The law required the Florida Education Commissioner to make recommendations to improve civic education materials and testing and the DOE will review statewide academic standards.
June 2019: Kathleen Arnn O’Toole, President Larry Arnn’s daughter, is hired as Assistant Provost for K-12 Education to head up Hillsdale K-12 1776 Curriculum project. Her husband, Daniel O’Toole, also works at Hillsdale as an instructional coach. Adams works directly under O’Toole.
2019: O’Toole describes the following as a key characteristic of Hillsdale Classical Schools: “Instruction in the Western tradition through history, literature, philosophy, and the fine arts.” She also says: “Liberal education liberates us in the true sense. It frees us from...the wild passions and fanciful hopes that can degrade and destroy us.” She also says that “liberal education is liberation from vulgarity.”
April 22, 2020: Hillsdale K-12 began providing curricular support to private and public schools outside the Barney Charter School network, as well as to homeschool families and groups. This is particularly aimed to provide resources for at-home schooling during the Covid pandemic. All subject areas were included. Hillsdale Assistant Provost Kathleen Arnn O’Toole says that “American classical education uniquely emphasizes human virtue and moral chanter, responsible citizenship, content-rich curricula, and teacher-led classrooms. Classical educators focus on cultivating moral and intellectual virtues so that each student becomes capable of self-government and is, therefore, able to live a happy life.”
Aug. 13, 2000: Hillsdale College put out a press release announcing Hillsdale College’s partnership with the State of Florida to review the Florida civic standards and curriculum. Jordan Adams is one of the reviewers. The following was in a press release issued by Hillsdale College: “The primary contributors were Kathleen O’Toole, Hillsdale’s assistant provost for K-12 education; Daniel O’Toole, who teaches U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College and contributed to the initiative; and Jordan Adams, associate director of instructional resources. The team combed through each individual standard and provided reviews, feedback, and suggestions for improvement.”
Sept. 17, 2020: Adams is chosen by Arnn to be part of a six-person panel put together by Arnn to announce the creation of a national 1776 commission to promote patriotic education. The commission was authorized by President Trump in an Executive Order that he signed on the same day as the panel presentation. Arm was chosen by Trump to head up this commission. Of the six panelists, four had direct connections to Hillsdale College. When Arnn introduced Adams, he said with a chuckle that Jordan is a “bright boy, though maybe not as smart as his wife.” Adams criticized teaching history based on the “cynical, deconstructionist cherry picked” works of Harold Zinn or the magazine articles in the1619 Project saying that they don’t have “love for America’s story.” Instead, they have “simplistic explanations like class struggle and systemic racism.” They use these “simplistic theories as tools to tear down their country, manipulate students, or both.”
September 17, 2020: While Arnn is appointed by President Trump to head up the 1776 Commission, Matthew Spalding, who is dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at the Washington, DC campus of Hillsdale College, is appointed as the commission’s executive director. (Spalding is also a DeSantis-appointed Trustee at New College of Florida.)
March 30, 2021: Christopher F. Rufo gives a lecture at Hillsdale College entitled “Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It.” He calls CRT “America’s new institutional orthodoxy.” He describes it history, what it is, and how it works. He calls on citizens to have the “courage to stand and speak the truth” against CRT.
May 14, 2021: Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran speaks at Hillsdale College giving a speech entitled “Education Freedom.” Corcoran, introduced by Arnn as “one of the most important men in the United States today,” says that “what we have to do is cross the Rubicon and we’re very close” in getting kids out of public schools into choice schools. To get to this he says we will be “fighting every step of the way.” “The war will be won in education.”
June 10, 2021: The Florida State Board of Education passed a new rule that prohibited an instruction that defines American history “as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.” The ruling also banned critical race theory and the utilization of any material from the 1619 project. This reflects the language used in the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum.
July 13, 2021: Gov. DeSantis announces the establishment of the Civic Literacy Excellence Imitative with $106 million in funding. The funding will be used to create, and award qualified teachers with the Florida Civics Seal of Excellence, which includes a $3k stipend for educators who complete training to earn the endorsement. The funding will also be used for Florida’s civics curriculum and to support the implementation of Florida’s revised civics and government standards in Florida’s K-12 public schools.
July 29, 2021: Hillsdale College releases its “1776 Curriculum” for grades K-12 free of charge. Arnn says the curriculum “seeks to teach the truth of American history and to cultivate in students the knowledge and virtue necessary to live good lives as citizens.” The first release goes through the Civil War era. Further units, that will include material up through “Modern America,” are expected to be released by the end of 2021, the press release states. The curriculum is a direct challenge to the 1619 Project, published in The New York Times Magazine. The current material is limited to American history and civics but Hillsdale plans to develop curriculum in other areas.
September 20, 2021: Roger Kimball gives a speech, “The January 6 Insurrection Hoax” at Hilldale College during a Center for Alternatives conference on “Critical American Elections.” The title of this speech tells it all. Kimball says that ‘it wasn’t an insurrection at all” and then proceeds to call it a rally. Kimball is gaga over Trump: “Trump’s accomplishments as president were nothing less than stunning.”
December 9, 2021: Hilldale College hosted its annual classical education tele-townhall on the topic of “Reviving American Classical K-12 Education” with more than 13,000 people participating in the call. It was hosted by Arnn and Hugh Hewitt and joined by Hillsdale’s Assistant Provost for K-12 Education Kathleen Arnn O’Toole (Arnn’s daughter) and Civic Education Specialist Jordan Adams. In a Hillsdale press release on the tele-townhall, he said. In addition to securing regular time for instruction in American civics, we need to ensure what students study truly answers the key question in deciding content: what in history has had the greatest influence on shaping the world in which students live today?”
Feb. 23, 2022: Gov. DeSantis is the keynote speaker at the Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar in Naples, Fl. DeSantis described his efforts to expand school vouchers and charter schools, praising Hillsdale’s “flourishing” network of classical schools in Florida. “I mean how many places, other than Hillsdale, are actually standing for truth, excellence and to produce people who will be leaders?” He also argued that “woke-ism” is embedded in academic institutions. He also said: “When I get people who submit resumes, quite frankly if I got one from Yale, I would be negatively disposed to that individual unless they showed some type of significant counter to the prevailing narrative. If I get someone from Hillsdale, I know they have the foundations necessary to be able to be helpful in pursuing conservative policies.”
April 5, 2022: Christopher Rufo delivered a speech, “Laying Siege to the Institutions,” during his two-week teaching residency at Hillsdale as a Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism. His main thesis in this speech is that the revolutionary ideas of the ‘60s of “identity politics and cultural revolution” have been “repackaged, repurposed, and injected into American life at the institutional level” in the “federal bureaucracy, the universities, K-12 schools, and big corporations.’ He uses Disney as an example, claiming that he has been reporting on that woke corporation for over a year, therefore going back to 2021. (Was Rufo the impetus behind DeSantis’ Disney attacks?) Rufo goes after Disney for their diversity, equity and inclusion policies and claims Disney protects child sexual predators. His main point is captured in this quote: “The lesson I’ve drawn from reporting on institutions that promote ideologies such as critical race theory and radical gender theory is that they have been captured at the structural level and can’t be reformed from within… That’s why I call for a siege strategy.” He says in this siege, “you have to be aggressive. You have to fight on terms that you define.” ‘We will never win if we play by the rules set by the elites.” For K-12 institutions he says to “decentralize them” by reducing federal and state controls.” That “ultimately means something like universal school choice, placing power in parents’ hands.” He continues: “Too many parents today have no escape mechanism from substandard schools controlled by leftist ideologues. Universal school choice—meaning that public education funding goes directly to parents rather than schools—would fix that.” He ends by saying the choice today is “between the American Revolution of 1776 and the leftist revolution of the 1960s.”
April 15, 2022: The Florida Department of Education puts out a press release stating that 41 percent of submitted mathematics textbooks were “impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics” like CRT, inclusions of Common Core, and social-emotional learning (SEL). Two of the reviewers were from Hillsdale College, including none other than Jordan Adams., a civics education specialist. The other Hilldale student was a second-year student majoring in politics. Neither of the Hillsdale reviewers was qualified under DOE criteria. To be accepted as an expert reviewer, the State requires an applicant to have at least one of four credentials in math: a master’s degree or higher; an educator certification; substantial experience with evidence of mathematics content expertise and student achievement; or, recognition as a math content expert, such as receiving awards or being published in math.
April 25, 2022: Civic Education specialist Jordan Adams spoke on “Best Practices of History Instruction” at a Hillsdale K-12 Education Office-hosted seminar at the Southbank Hotel Jacksonville Riverwalk in Jacksonville Florida. The event was geared toward teachers. “I was glad to share the principles of classical education, particularly as they pertain to history instruction, with teachers from around the United States.”
June 30, 2022: Florida teachers taking the civics training course, largely developed by Hillsdale College, complain that it promotes conservative ideology and Christian nationalism. One teacher said, “it was very skewed.” “There was a very strong Christian fundamentalist way toward analyzing different quotes and documents.” Another educator said that presenters “downplayed slavery and promoted originalism.” DeSantis doubled the funding for the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative in 2022 over last year’s funding to $1 million. A June 2022 article in the Miami Herald points out that the DeSantis administration is putting a “greater emphasis on civics than on socially divisive issues such as race and gender identity.” Or as DeSantis has put it, he is reorienting teaching away from “indoctrination and back towards education.”
June 30, 2022: Nashville News Channel 5 releases hidden-camera video footage of Arnn mocking the intelligence of public school teachers and teacher training programs at a private luncheon at a Tennessee Cool Spring conference center with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee seated with Arnn on stage. His remarks include: “The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.” “The philosophic understanding at the heart of modern education is enslavement…. They’re messing with people’s children, and they feel entitled to do anything to them.” “You will see how education destroys generations of people. It’s devastating. It’s like the plague.” “We are going to try to demonstrate that you don’t have to be an expert to educate a child because basically, anybody can do it.” Claude Pressnell Jr., president of the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, tweeted: “This is incredibly disturbing. Dr. Larry Arnn’s demeaning portrayal of Tennessee’s Ed prep programs and professors is uninformed and offensive.”
July 2022: The backlash to Arnn’s hidden-camera comments was immediate and widespread, even amongst GOP leaders. It pretty much scuttles Tennessee Gov. Lee’s plans to build 50 Hillsdale classical schools. The chairman of Tennessee’s House Education Administration Committee said, “When the General Assembly convenes again next January any hope that Hillsdale will operate in Tennessee has been shattered.” A number of Tennessee school districts passed resolutions supporting teachers and condemning Arnn’s remarks.
July 18, 2022: In a guest column in The Tennessean, Larry Arnn tries to explain and reframe his remarks calling teachers’ colleges “dumb.” He says, “Dumb can mean ‘unintelligent,’ which I did not mean. Dumb also means ‘ill-conceived’ or ‘misdirected,’ which is, sadly a fitting description for many education schools today.” He then critiques how many education schools “elevate methods over content as a way for a few to control many.” He also attacked the “education bureaucracy” for controlling “America’s schools for too long” and depriving “parents of charter school options.”
July 22, 2022: Asst Provost, Dr. O’Toole is interviewed by Brandon Lewis, founder of The Tennessee Conservative and a rightwing podcaster. O’Toole’s interview is part of the effort to reframe what her father, Larry Arrn, said about teachers colleges as being “dumb.” The interesting part is how she described the purpose of the K-12 office, which she sets up is that she describes its purpose as giving curriculum advice and resources and how to start a classical private or charter school. She said that they do school board training, teacher training, principal training, and curriculum consultation. (Sounds similar to that which Adams is offering Sarasota Schools in his contract.)
Sept. 13, 2022: The article in M live, “Soured Relations Prompt Some Charter Schools to Distance from Hillsdale College,” runs down how classical schools all over the country are disaffiliating with Hillsdale’s BCSI since Arnn’s “dumb teachers” blunder.
October 2022: Adams describes how there are plans to expand the Hillsdale BCSI curriculum to other subjects and to reach out to all educators. In an article on the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence out of which seminars aimed at teachers are presented, Adams said that he expects that the range of (curriculum) topics will soon broaden to include other disciplines, including science, literature, and mathematics, and to other grade levels. “Our eventual goal is to bring every part of what our schools teach on the road to any teacher in the country,” says Adams. “The education our schools bring to children is unmatched in the country, and we want teachers of every subject and grade level to benefit from it.”
Nov. 3, 2022: Arnn delivers a speech in Santa Clara, CA entitled, “Education as a Battleground” where he warns about the dangers of the public education bureaucracy, which he calls the administrative state, supplanting the family that could result in children being “recruited to the purposes of despotic regimes, even to the extent of denouncing their parents to the state.” Arnn goes on to say, “We do not yet have this in America. But we do have children being turned against their country by being indoctrinated to look at its past—of which all parents, of course, are in some ways a part—as a shameful time of irredeemable injustice.” He says, “Public education is an important component of the prevailing administrative system. The roots of the system are in Washington, D.C. and the tendrils reach into every town and hamlet that has a public school.” He includes teacher unions in this administrative system. Arnn sees the battle as between “the people who make an independent living” and the “administrative state.” “The lines are clearly formed.” In his conclusion, he states, “As long as our representative institutions work in response to the public will, there is thankfully no need for violence.” (And if, in his mind, they don’t, is he implying the need for violence?)
Dec. 9, 2022: Jordan Christopher Adams incorporates Vermilion Education LLC in Michigan. He assigns himself as the registered agent and uses his home address at 90 Reading Ave., Hillsdale, MI. This is reflected in the Articles of Organization with a screenshot shown below:
March 2023: Adams sets up a Vermilion Education website. It is a very basic, template-style website with little content and no track record of service. He lists his education services as guidance for boards, district improvement planning, policy implementation, and communication and commentary. Audit services are described as district improvement study, curriculum and instruction audit, student formation audit, and teacher retention and recruitment audit. Here is the link to the website: https://vermilioneducation.com
March 21, 2023: Ziegler tacks on at the end of the agenda for the March 21 Monthly Work Session under #6, Members Comments/Assignments “Vermilion Education brief.” At approximately 3:43 pm, Board Chair Ziegler introduces the idea of hiring Vermilion Education as a consultant. She puts it in the context of looking for a way to stop “distraction after distraction.” She believes the Vermilion consultant will “keep us away from the fire.” She said she looked at many other consulting companies, but every other company was geared toward making sure that DEI is implemented. Board member Karen Rose was supportive of the idea feeling that it will help bring about unity. Board member Tom Edwards said that hiring Vermillion due to the ties of Jordan Adams, the owner of Vermilion, to Hillsdale College. He cited the uproar that Hillsdale College has created in the community over Hillsdale’s role at New College of Florida. It was left to discuss it further and to have a conversation in person or by Zoom with Jordan Adams. The discussion lasted about 22 minutes, ending at close to 4:10 pm. Here is a link to the March 21 school board meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQxyxgAdR8I&t=14409s
March 21, 2023: At the regular board meeting, many individuals from the community addressed their concern about hiring Vermilion Education LLC during public commentary.
March 24, 2023: One of the best television reporting on the Vermilion situation is that of Katie LaGrone, award-winning investigative journalist of ABC Action News Tampa. In her report, “What is Vermilion Education and Why Florida School Boards Should Care,” LaGrone interviews Bridget Ziegler. LaGrone first asks Ziegler how she learned of Vermilion and Ziegler said: “Well I work in education circles and earlier it was brought forward to my attention.” LaGrone frames her next clip with Ziegler saying, “Ziegler sees classical education as an opportunity for all students here.” Ziegler then states, “Why is it a bad idea to either consider how can we take pieces of that, that would align to our mission as public education institutions that wouldn’t imply any indoctrination of any one ideology but get back to the core classical components of academics?” Here is a link to this video:
April 2023: Adams seems to update his LinkedIn account to indicate that he ended his employment with Hillsdale College in March 2023 and began his work with Vermilion Education LLC also in March 2023. This contradicts Adam’s answer to School Board member Enos when Enos asked him if he had other clients and Adams said he had “a few.” That sounds highly unlikely if he just started his self-employment sometime in March.
April 4, 2023: At the work session, again the Vermilion Education LLC proposal was not a numbered item on the agenda but instead “Vermilion Brief” was placed under Member Comments. There were two attachments in the Vermilion Brief, one a proposed contract for a “District Study” and the second for “Board Services.” The District contract did not have a cost as it said TBD while the Board Services contract had a specified cost of $4,820 per month for 4 months or $19,280. For both contracts, board chair Ziegler would be the contact person. These proposed contracts can be found at the following link: https://scs.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=4684&MeetingID=1157
Board Chair Ziegler announced that she had arranged for Jordan Adams to give a presentation at the work session. This resulted in a heated discussion with Tom Edwards saying that this had not been given proper notice and was illegal. The presentation occurred and Adams presented four slides, two slides on a “District Improvement Study” and two slides on a “Board Advisory Services.” During the Q&A that followed, board member Marinelli raised a concern about Vermillion sitting in on employee interviews, particularly for teaching staff. Ziegler agreed and that was struck from the contract. Board member Enos asked about how many districts Adams had worked with and Adams said “A few” with no specific names given by him. At the conclusion of the meeting, Ziegler said she was postponing the vote to the April 18th Sarasota School Board meeting.
April 12, 2023: Adams files for a Certificate of Change of Registered Office and/or Registered Agent, changing both entities. He changes his registered agent to Zen Business Inc. and his registered office to Zen Business Inc., 221 West Lake Lansing Road, Suite 200, East Lansing, MI 48823. An internet search determined that Zen Business Inc. is an on the cheap internet-based “fully remote company in Austin Texas.” One of the addresses it uses for Michigan for its registered agent and registered office for multiple companies is the East Lansing address. The only two tenants that could be identified for the small office building is an infectious disease doctor and the Mid-Michigan regional office of US Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
April 12, 2023: The agenda for the school board meeting on April 18 is made available. The “approval of the contract between Vermilion Education LLC and the School Board of Sarasota County, Florida” is number 33 on the agenda under New Business. There is only one contract listed (meaning either the contract with the school board has been scrapped or postponed. The contract listed is for “district services” and will cost the district $28,000 payable in three parts. Again, the school board chair is the main contact person, and the contract is to be signed by Ziegler and Adams. The contract is considerably longer due to substitutionally more legal provisions but otherwise is like the district services contract attached to the April 4, 2023 work session. Attached is a link to the revised contract: https://scs.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=4720&MeetingID=1140