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An putting it on a four year refresh cycle and i think we need to do that. One of my questions for you is have you identified actually funding for this or is it more like this is an ask as part of the fundamental development strategy. Ill take a first stab at it. Great question. Its a yes and yes. So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were ...

Approximately a zero percent Response Rate that had very high proportions of African American and latino students. We got about 900 percent more responses and about a percentage point or more each for the Response Rate for the latino and African American families. Our main finding is most households have internet. The district average is about 94 percent. It ranges from the high 70 percent for American Indian and alaska native families, up to 98. 4 percent for our white families. As you can see below the district average of 94 percent is our say moe wan families, latino families, African Ameri...

So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were always getting the latest equipment in place, but its been a fascinating journey because it also requires you have a really robust acid Management System where you can track and account for that kind of a system so that requires some enterprise systems as well, which is dependent on technology. So ...

Timeframes, hopefully well go out for a bond. Its a 4 something on this scale which is 130 to 160 million. Were going to go to a bond, but to get there were working with our private funders to help us along those lines. Superintendent lee talked about qeta to funds were talking about 2,000 educators to try to get them devices. We have another sources of funds, the common core state funds, the commissioners approved approximately 2. 2 million next year to buy devices to help support the online test so well be rolling about 5400 devices out to school sites next year to support that. We have anot...

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...