Education committee forwards proposed 3‑year Securly monitoring contract to full Board of Alders

The Board of Alders Education Committee on Sept. 24 advanced LM20250475, a proposed three‑year agreement to provide Securly classroom monitoring software to New Haven Public Schools, by discharging the item for consideration by the full Board of Alders. The committee did not take a final vote; the full board is scheduled to consider the item at its Oct. 6 meeting.

Michael Simeone, chief technology officer for the city of New Haven, presented the item and described Securly as a classroom‑management and web‑filtering product that lets teachers monitor Chromebooks from a single desktop, identify students visiting inappropriate sites and surface concerning language. "This product... allows the teacher to monitor all the Chromebooks in their classroom from one desktop," Simeone said.

Simeone told the committee the proposed agreement is for a three‑year term to secure a better price. He said the annual cost is $62,900 for 25,000 licenses and that the three‑year term total is approximately $188,700 for the contract term as presented to the committee.

Simeone said the product integrates with other systems already in use; he noted the district previously implemented Clever for single sign‑on and said Securly products integrate with the district's other systems.

There were no members of the public who spoke on the item during the committee meeting. Committee leadership closed the public portion and discharged the item from the committee to the full board agenda for a vote on Oct. 6.

Ending: The full Board of Alders will consider and vote on LM20250475 at its Oct. 6 meeting; committee discussion on Sept. 24 will appear in the meeting record but did not include a committee vote.