The Road to provide Tech Ed
General financing of the budget must be reoriented to the needs of local agencies for training. This will help both the commercial aspects of learning and a school. These funds may initially need additional support, but the teachers have the advantages of the technology. We must intelligently define the financing of the education of growth of all our children.
The leasing of equipment 
Last year, Poway Unified School District had to replace about 3000 computer with Windows 95 These computers will not work on the Web browser on data collected in its reporting tool, or a majority of the teachers of Web pages. The memory and the speed of the machine were not enough to keep most of the level of the company, the software, on its Wide Area Network (WAN) and local area networks (LAN).
The district has less than $ 1 million per year for this project. Leasing was discussed. The amount of the district was responsible for the ongoing support, and the question was, could a rent, the seller always a fixed amount over several years, the neighborhood is also a streaming update service technology?
The county has a rental of four years with three suppliers, with an agreement at the end of four years to turn the machines with a new lease agreement. New cost savings include maintenance agreements - seller, the responsibility for all repairs at the time of rental.
Thin Client
Districts of New York and New Jersey have discovered how the thin-client technology to the old machine. During the end of 1990, the thin client was rejected as too slow and too expensive to be in most schools. This perception has changed in the world of business, such as in training, with a higher speed of the WAN and LAN technologies, and tremendous cost savings server.
In a thin-client workstations not save programs to receive, but a whole system of servers (servers for about 20 jobs). When the servers were each $ 20000, the cost prevented this. Today, servers, thin clients may take into account costs about $ 3500, making the rapid communication with the jobs and economic solution.
Total Cost of Ownership
How can the politicians find the real cost of the equipment to support? The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the Gartner Group, an online tool that will help you to estimate the costs of the different levels of technology.
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