Posted on 01/11/2024 5:27:55 PM PST by george76
An annual report from the Inspector General of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) revealed that millions of dollars worth of tech devices were reported lost or stolen “without appropriate search and recovery efforts.”
The fiscal year 2023 annual report released Tuesday states CPS schools reported 77,505 tech devices as lost or stolen during the 2021-22 school year, totaling well over $23 million in original purchase price.
The discovery, as a result of the district’s first post-COVID-19 inventory, calls the numbers “unacceptably high” and says the oversight process is in need of a “serious overhaul.”
The report said the missing items included laptops, iPads, Wi-Fi hotspots, printers, document cameras and interactive whiteboards.
“At three dozen schools, 100 percent of tech devices assigned specifically to students were marked lost or stolen, inventory data showed,”
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During the same school year, CPS shelled out upwards of $124 million on “technology assets,”
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The district statement added that they are working to change the process, enhance systems and hold school leaders accountable to the asset management policy.
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Our work uncovered an incident where there were a pair of siblings, a brother and sister at school who between them lost 9-10 devices, (and) there’s no record or indication that the district reached out to the family mentioned this was an issue try to figure out what happened.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Not.
I agree with all but MIT.
They still have some seriously high academic standards.
The rest offer fluff degrees.
Ridiculous. At most, they should be issuing out <$100 tablets, and no more than one per kid. If they ‘lose’ it, they can find another method on their own.
Of course, none of the class material should *require* a personal tablet/computer at those grade levels.
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