The budget cut means thousands of students will use aging laptops for another school year, although district leaders say the older devices are still functional.
D.C. public schools has cut its technology budget for students by $9 million ahead of the upcoming school year, scrapping plans to replace aging laptops for students who have been using them since the start of the pandemic.The decision will affect thousands of students who will use the aging devices for another school year.
“It’s real easy for DCPS to blame the council,” Mendelson said. “I worry that it’s not good for kids because if the adults at DPCS want to follow through to make the council look bad, kids are going to suffer.”D.C. Public Schools had intended to spend $18 million this summer to purchase devices, including almost 16,000 new Lenovo laptops to replace older Microsoft Surface Go models that have reached the end of their three-year life cycle, according to a request for task order from June. In D.C.
Molinoff warned of potential gaps in academic performance between students who have faster laptops and those who use slower ones. Lewis D. Ferebee, chancellor of the nearly 50,000-student system, warned of “more significant impacts to DCPS operations” — from the elimination of full-time substitutes to delays in paying out teacher bonuses — because of the council’s actions.
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