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District tech review: 3,300 Chromebooks, filtering and teacher surveys support keeping 1‑to‑1 program
Summary
A board presentation showed about 3,300 Chromebooks in service, a roughly $400,000 annual replacement budget, and teacher survey results that favor keeping 1‑to‑1 devices; IT staff described filtering, monitoring, and a Securely Home pilot for parent visibility.
Elizabethtown Area School District technology leaders told the board on Jan. 27 that the district’s 1‑to‑1 program remains a cornerstone of instruction even as trustees weigh device use, costs and screen‑time concerns.
Ted Cardwell and Dr. Kirkpatrick presented inventory and survey results gathered from a fall teacher questionnaire and district device records. Cardwell said the district has about 3,300 Chromebooks in student service (the core 1‑to‑1 fleet), roughly 170 Mac computers used for programming and labs, about 170 iPads (mainly kindergarten carts), 45 Windows machines for TechEd/CAD, and nearly 7,000 total connected…
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