Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 5/21/2025 - 2:00 PM
Category: Consent Calendar
Type: Action
Subject: 11.10 CURRICULUM: Agreement With Turnitin, LLC for Software Licenses for Heritage High School, Liberty High School, Perris High School, Perris Lake High School, and Paloma Valley High School (funded through Local Control Accountability Plan Supplemental and Concentration Funds in the amount of $41,878.46, not the General Fund)
Strategic Plan:
Enclosure
File Attachment:
Turnitin Agreement.EdSvc Software_25-26.pdf
Summary: The Perris Union High School District would like to enter into an Agreement with Turnitin for a one (1) year subscription for software licenses for the 2025-26 school year. The English Language Arts (ELA) Subject Area Council (SAC) is comprised of ELA Department Chairs across the District. In 2019, the ELA SAC proposed a solution to promote originality and proper citations for student work samples ranging from essays to performance tasks. The group reviewed different programs and unanimously approved Turnitin as the tool to address this need. Turnitin will allow teachers to focus their time and energy on providing feedback to students on the content of their writing as opposed to validating originality and monitoring plagiarism. Turnitin is an online software program that supports academic integrity, effective feedback, and peer review for student writing. It also provides feedback to students on their use of source material with the world’s largest content comparison database. It highlights original writing and proper citation. When institutions adopt Turnitin Feedback Studio, unoriginal work decreases by 33 percent, and students are challenged to think more critically. The term of this Agreement shall be from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, for a total cost of $41,878.46.
Funding: The cost for this item will be included in the 2025-26 operating budget funded through Local Control Accountability Plan Supplemental and Concentration Funds, not the General Fund.
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Agreement with Turnitin, LLC for software licenses for Heritage High School, Liberty High School, Perris High School, Perris Lake High School, and Paloma Valley High School.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Lindsay Chavez - Interim Director - Learning Support Services
Signed By:
Dr. Shanna Egans - Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services
Signed By:
Sylvia Hinojosa - Director - Purchasing
Signed By:
Candace Reines - Deputy Superintendent
Signed By:
Dr. Jose Luis Araux - Superintendent