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Stacie Laufer
Susan Cannon
August 5, 2017
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I chose this topic to learn more about funding in technology for schools. Technology is
constantly changing and updating. I believe it is hard for some schools to get adequate funding
for basic technologies. In my own school district, we got voter approval last November for a $4
million technology bond. The technology that was purchased over the summer is already a year
out of date.
5000 Texas educators found that 25% see a lack of government funding hindered them from
obtaining additional computers and adding more technology courses (School Planning &
infrastructures. 86% expect funding in technology to increase over the next few years but only
55% indicate it will be a moderate increase (School Planning & Management, 2000). In a
survey taken in 2015, LEGO Education polled LEAP teachers on what they thought about
technology. 90% of those polled believed their school was successful in classroom integration of
technology (Tech & Learning, 2015). In 2013 the US spent more than $4 billion on mobile
devices. Schools are using bond monies to keep up with technology. David Levin, president and
CEP of McGraw-Hill Education, said Some of the challenges schools have is that devices
progress quickly and reach obsolescence before the bond issues mature. (Koba, 2015). The
main points of the articles were teachers wanted more training on technology, keeping up with
the constant change is expensive and in one article, education technology companies are making
millions of dollars and provide value for investors, not necessarily schools.
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Part of the problem is the cost of the technologies. For rural school districts that may not
have a high tax rate or even passed bonds, they are not being provided with monies to update and
Reference
Koba, M. (2015, April). Education tech funding soars- but is it working in the
funding-soars-but-is-it-working-in-the-classroom/
Schools Attribute Inadequate Technology to Lack of Funding. (2000). School Planning and
Management, (12).