The schools of the Saline region devote just over $ 300,000 to purchases of new technologies, as it seeks to replace and update certain elementary chromebooks as well as computers within laboratories.
The Saline Board of Education, by unanimous votes, approved two purchasing sets at its meeting on May 13.
Jay Grossman, director of school technology in the Saline region, submitted two recommendations to make technology shopping to the Superintendent and the School Board.
Grossman said that chromebooks planned for the third year have reached their replacement age. He asked for the approval of the purchase of 500 aircraft through Trafera, which is an approved supplier on the Consortium Consortium Call Contract.
These devices will cost $ 164,500.
“This will replace all third -year chromebooks as well as to reconstruct our devices for loan chromebooks to provide families who have a broken device or a financial need and cannot afford to buy a device,” said Grossman. “This will help ensure that all students have a device to access our digital program.”
With computers, Grossman asked the school board to approve the purchase of 150 mac mini computers as well as wired keyboards and monitors to replace the current devices used in the laboratories of the IMAC of students of Saline High School, Middle School and Liberty.
“Current devices are approaching six years and will no longer receive software and security fixes,” according to Grossman. “The new computers will be taken care of for the next five years while monitors and keyboards will last up to 10 years.”
Grossman said they are changing the model of their current Imac all-in-one laboratories to Mac Mini with keyboard and monitor, because the Mac Mini treatment power is higher while the cost has reduced.
The school district will pay $ 140,092 for this new set of computers.
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