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At right now’s Leon County School Board assembly, the Board accepted step one in a plan to supply a tool to each scholar within the district. The Board licensed negotiating the phrases of a four-year lease settlement with American Capital Monetary Providers for the acquisition of an intensive expertise bundle.
The lease settlement shall be damaged into 4 annual funds for a most complete of $11 million. Funding will come from capital outlay, basic income, and categorical funds.
The settlement will cowl 32,500 Chromebooks, in addition to instances, warranties, and licenses. This consists of 5% in spare gadgets for use within the occasion of repairs or issues with gadgets.
Moreover, the settlement covers 900 charging stations—one for every elementary homeroom class so as to enable elementary college students to go away their gadgets on campus in the course of the faculty day. The settlement additionally covers setup and restore companies from Technology Integration Group and Google tenant administration companies.
Superintendent Rocky Hanna mentioned households might be able to buy gadget insurance coverage for $25 per yr.
Hanna mentioned approving the initiative is a historic second for the Leon County School system.
“It’s dangerous, and there’s in all probability a cause why Leon County Faculties didn’t go down this path for years now, however it’s completely the appropriate time,” Hanna mentioned. “This isn’t simply in response to the pandemic. It was the appropriate factor to do however the pandemic. We must always have completed this even when we weren’t despatched residence for the final 9 weeks of the varsity yr. It’s completely the appropriate factor to do for transferring our college district ahead.”
After negotiating the phrases of the settlement, workers plans to ship gadgets to college students by Aug. 1, 2020.
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