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Board of Education asks council to reallocate $1.2 million to replace aging school devices
Summary
School officials and their IT contractor told the finance committee the district needs roughly $1.2 million to replace laptops, Chromebooks and other endpoints after COVID-era devices aged out; the funds were proposed by shifting money away from renovations at Carrigan/Kerrigan school.
Officials from the West Haven school district and its IT contractor told the city's finance committee on Monday that district technology purchased or distributed during the COVID period is reaching the end of its useful life and that the Board of Education has proposed redirecting capital funds to cover an initial phase of device replacements.
A school official told the council the district currently has about 6,000 Chromebooks in use, 655 staff laptops averaging seven to eight years old, and roughly 370 workstations averaging six to seven years old. The district asked the city to reallocate roughly $1.2 million previously…
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