[Here lies an issue which deserves a response...]
"Funding for technology at the elementary level
Given the challenges elementary schools face from year to year, a system is required to provide predictable and increased funding for technology. There are 2 objectives:
-Redistribute the funding among large and small schools to support differences of scale that these different sites.
-Raise the overall funding level in all schools.
Elementary school principals were consulted regarding a plan to give them “targeted” funding on an annual basis to green technology over the course of five years.
Feedback from schools was positive for the plan, many of whom suggested that if funds were to be targeted, it would be easier to have it handled centrally.
[HERE IS THE CONTROVERSIAL PART]
If systems are going to be deployed centrally, principals suggested the efficiency of using a single operating system platform. With this feedback, Tony went to Senior Administration and has been given a mandate to begin to develop a process for moving the systems to centrally administered single platform system across the elementary schools.
This process will begin in 2007/08 and will employ a five year greening cycle for all elementary schools."
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