Austintown spends $1.1 million to outfit grades 6-12 with tablets
By Robert Connelly, Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio | |
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That cost, provided by district Treasurer
The main reasons for the purchase by the district are to better equip students for online testing as state tests shift to that direction, and to bridge the technology gap between the new buildings and the older
"We feel that's going to give our students a huge advantage ... they're on the way," Ventresco said.
"We're going to roll them out by grade, and there's going to be an insurance fee that we're going to ask parents to pay and we're going to dissolve the general fee in lieu of that."
Though that insurance fee hasn't been decided yet, district officials talked about possibly charging
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade will use the tablet carts that already had been in place in district buildings.
Superintendent
Also at Tuesday night's board meeting, district officials honored
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