With the state switching to the PARC test for the 2014–15 school year, the school district has been making changes to make sure the students are prepared as best as possible.
At last week’s Board of Education meeting, the second phase of a technology purchase was approved. The purchase, which will cost the district $246,838, will pay for 575 Chromebooks.
This purchase comes after the district bought a number of new Dell computers earlier this year.
The purchase is necessary, according to Director of Communication Services Marie Reynolds.
“This is our first significant PC purchase,” she said. “We needed to have this purchase because of the PARC test next year.”
The PARC test must be taken on the computer. This not only meant that the district had to have enough computers to go around, but the computers also had to be modern enough to handle the testing.
“Some of our computers were so old that they couldn’t use the software needed to take the test,” Reynolds said.
