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Instructional technology report: district inventories devices, work orders and new esports activity

School City of East Chicago Board of Trustees · April 23, 2026
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Director George Ontiveros briefed trustees on device counts (about 4,000 Chromebooks, 350 iPads, ~650 laptops), roughly 3,000 annual work orders and expansion of esports programs at middle and high schools; trustees asked about AI use, cybersecurity and records scanning.

The board received the annual instructional technology report Thursday, covering the department’s structure, device inventory, service workload and extracurricular programming.

George Ontiveros, director of instructional technology, said the district manages nearly 4,000 Chromebooks, about 350 iPads and roughly 650 student laptops. The district remains a 2:1 environment for early grades (K–2) and 1:1 for grades 7–12, he said. The department handles roughly 3,000 work orders annually (about 350 per month) and oversees dozens of managed software…

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