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Lakeland board approves Chromebook purchases, school modernization bids and parking-frontage repairs
Summary
Trustees approved funding to buy 400 Chromebooks, accepted school-modernization bids including a full reroof for Lakeland High School, and agreed to pay for Washington Street parking-frontage asphalt from a board-approved projects fund. All motions passed by voice vote with no recorded opposition.
The Lakeland District Board approved several facilities and technology requests during its meeting, including a request from the instructional-technology director to purchase 400 Chromebooks to replace damaged and out-of-warranty devices.
Chad Parsons, the district’s instructional-technology director (S15), told trustees the district has roughly 5,000 Chromebooks—about 4,500 for students and 500 for staff—with 1,000 already out of warranty and 221 devices currently damaged and unusable. “The ask is to purchase 400 Chromebooks, to get us through for these ones that are damaged,” Parsons said, explaining the request is to sustain testing and…
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