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District outlines new Chromebook refresh plan, monitoring and parent controls
Summary
District technology staff presented a multi-year plan to cut Chromebook refresh costs, explained monitoring tools (GoGuardian, Gaggle) and described parental controls; board members asked for broader parent notification.
Highlands County technology staff told the school board they will move to a smaller, targeted Chromebook refresh cycle over two years, while keeping monitoring and parental-control tools in place.
Ian Bellinger, director of MIS, said the district previously refreshed roughly $750,000 worth of Chromebooks each year and is shifting to a plan that refreshes fewer devices — lowering the projected replacement cost to about $450,000 under the new schedule. "We're only gonna refresh our Chromebooks in seventh grade…this plan will…
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