Students at Littlefork-Big Falls High School can expect a more one-on-one technology experience next school year after action taken by the school board Wednesday night.
The board agreed to purchase 140 iPads, costing about $56,000, to be disbursed to elementary and high school students. The iPads were piloted at the beginning of this school year at L-BF.
“The board is very supportive of technology updates,” Superintendent Fred Seybert reported Thursday to The Journal.
Seybert said he believes that it is the school’s technological awareness and advancement that helped earn it a bronze medal recognition from U.S. News & World Report earlier this month.
In addition to the purchase of new iPads, the board agreed to condense the technology plan from three years to two years to allow the school to fast forward with technology purchases.
The board also increased the technology budget from $100,000 to $133,000 annually.
Seybert reports that a few staff members have undergone training for the implementation of iPads in the classroom, and the remaining will attend before the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year.
In other action, the board agreed to replace the school’s exterior door closing mechanisms at a cost of about $36,000.
The group also agreed to hold a June 10-14 silent auction for items no longer used by the school district.
