Massachusetts To Launch $15 Million “Pay For Success” Grant Program For Adult Basic GED Education

On February 27, 2014, Massachusetts announced plans to use pay-for-success contracts to expand adult basic education services. This will represent the state’s third pay-for-success project; the others are a recently finalized young adult justice reentry project with Roca, Inc.; and a homelessness prevention project, which is still in negotiation. The state plans to invest $15 million in the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Pay For Success Initiative to serve a portion of the 16,000 on the Massachusetts wait list for ABE and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). The contracts will be designed with . . .