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Good morning. This is Melanie Asmar with Chalkbeat Colorado.

Chalkbeat National Reporter Lily Altavena asked five superintendents, including one from Colorado, to share the sales pitches emailed to them in one day. They shared 90 messages from companies offering everything from 3D frog dissection simulations to student fingerprint scanning. Read more in today’s top story.

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