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Support services briefed board on fiber, cybersecurity, truancy interventions and mental-health programs
Summary
The district’s support services presentation outlined IT upgrades including a city fiber ring and cybersecurity steps, student services’ truancy interventions, and mental-health partnerships including Cartwheel and a Life Vest donor program.
Student services, information technology and research leaders told the board July 15 about infrastructure work, attendance and behavioral interventions and mental‑health partnerships designed to support learning and safety. Maurice Payne (director of information technology, referenced by the student services presenter) and the support-services team described a partnership with the City of Decatur to install a city fiber ring that will connect nine schools first and ultimately “connect all district buildings to the city's fiber ring” to provide internal redundancy, the presentation said. IT upgrades…
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