Alpine tech leaders lay out plan to split IT systems, data centers and staff for three‑district reconfiguration

Alpine School District technology leaders presented the board with a detailed plan to prepare IT systems, data centers and staffing for the district’s upcoming reconfiguration into three separate districts. The presentation described steps to create separate instances of core systems, split or archive existing data, and preserve institutional knowledge through planned staff overlap and knowledge transfer.

The presentation matters because student records, payroll, learning platforms and network services must remain available and secure while Alpine builds three independent technology footprints. Dr. Blaine Edmond, the district’s administrator of technology, said the objective is “for 3 districts to be successful when we start,” and emphasized that the district’s work now should reduce the technical and financial burden on the new districts after the split.

Technology leaders described the scale and sequence of the work in a house‑building metaphor. Paul Lewis, director of data services, told the board: “Our technology infrastructure is a lot like a house. It has a foundation — you pour the cement — and then you start building the walls.” Leaders said the “foundation” decisions include which student information system…