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At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district funded option that will be equivalent to what the teacher gets as their device. All schools will have high end mobile labs available to them to address the more specific requirements of some of the higher end, particularly our english language lerner software and others that require a fully powered desktop machine to do specific work. So the second component...

Amount of money. So putting in people soft about ten years ago, somewhere in the 8 to 10 million range, so putting an hr system were anticipating 5 million and budget another 2 million. Thats significant amount of money to raise. We were planning next year the chief of hr and i have been talking about how we can join forces to start looking at what would a different hr system look like and what would we want it to do . Do we want to implement people soft or other systems or combination systems for the ability to develop career lattices. And weve been working with the Budget Office to talk abou...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the terminology that hes trying to disrupt patterns of sexism. Im curious if you brought up girls and l...

Without some additional funding, both locally and at a state level. We need to advocate at a state level. You cant expect us to do 21st century schools and do all the assessment online, if theres no specific funding to help our School Districts do this. Were launching that campaign. Well be focusing on talent and theres a number of initiatives there to support our teachers. Were doing exciting work with high schools and creating a much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at worki...

Much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at working with microsoft to make this a 21st century academy. Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving t...