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Future: 3-Year Tech Infrastructure & Hardware Plan
Future: 3-Year Tech Infrastructure & Hardware Plan
(Smart Schools Investment Plan 2015-16)
The plan moving forward represents a continuation of the work that began in 2010. There are three major priorities for the purchase of technology equipment to support teaching and learning across the district over the next three years. These correspond with priorities #1, #3, #6 of the Smart Schools allowable expenditure categories.
Funding Sources
Funding Sources
For the duration of this plan, funds for technology across the district come largely from three sources: General Fund Budget (GF), which includes includes New York State instructional hardware and software allocations, Smart Schools Bond Act (SS) funding (see previous section), the 2013 Bond Referendum (BR) funding (see previous section). The projected funding source for the various planned purchases is indicated in the tables that follow. A discussion of the sustainability of technology purchases into the future comes later in this document.
- Ensure that high-quality wireless access is available across the district; and
- Ensure the speed of the district’s internet connection meets or exceeds the FCC’s minimum speed standard of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students in order to meet the needs of all 21st-century learners.
- Ensure end-user technology devices for all students and teachers such that they have state-of-the-art classroom technology and access to 21st-century information and tools;
- Provide a one-to-one, student-to-device environment by the end of the current plan;
- Ensure upgraded presentation equipment in all district classrooms; and
- Ensure equipment for specialty classroom spaces such as television studios, distance learning facilities, and manufacturing (CNC) labs.
- Provide enhanced access control; and
- Ensure continued improvement of surveillance camera system.
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