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District committees review technology, textbook and printer purchases as staff debate device strategies
Summary
Procurement and academic staff presented a package of technology and instructional-material procurements, and board members pressed for clearer school‑level device loss data before deciding whether to buy, lease or move to virtual desktops for student laptops.
District staff presented several related procurements and a planning debate about how to supply student devices and manage instructional materials.
Device strategy and immediate procurements: Finance and IT described three approaches for district device needs: (1) annual purchases capped at about $10.5 million to replace aging high‑school laptops and incrementally refresh inventories; (2) a full‑district lease across all grade bands (estimated in staff materials at roughly $43 million total) that would shift device replacement risk to a vendor; and (3) a “virtual desktop / low‑cost device” hybrid (estimated implementation year cost ~ $15.6 million) that uses lower‑cost endpoints with cloud-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure for high‑end applications.
Board members pressed the administration for device‑loss and breakage statistics before committing to a leasing model. Interim superintendent and finance staff said historical device‑loss…
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