According to the New York Times, the average public school now has at least one multimedia computer for every ten students. In 1999, 90 percent of public schools had access to the Internet. Schools now face the question: "How are school districts going to support technology on a limited budget?"
Customer Profile
Christina School District is the largest school district in Delaware and includes 29 schools in 29 buildings where 2,562 teachers, administrators and staff ensure the education of 20,660 students. The mission of the Christina School District, a diverse public school system, is to educate each student to succeed in our changing society by providing a positive learning environment with a caring, committed, and knowledgeable staff. The district provides public education for K-12 and also several special schools such as the Margaret S. Sterk School for the Deaf, the State Autistic Program, and the Christina School District Option Program School.
Adopting Windows 2000 Districtwide
Like many school districts, Christina has recognized that technology is critical to the learning process. Technology has been adapted in a phased approach, and today the district has a mixed environment consisting of Macs, legacy equipment, and state-of-the-art Dell personal computers. A district this size is comparable to a medium-sized corporation, but the district can little afford the staff to maintain the network infrastructure and attend to the day-to-day support issues, hardware upgrades, and software administration. Currently, the district employs two full-time technical support staff to handle approximately 5,000 computers on a wide-area network in 33 buildings. In a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 environment, Christina School District will save money by:
