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HB 512 Programs designed to promote educational opportunities.

Introduced by: Marian Van Landingham | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Programs designed to promote educational opportunities. Modifies the statutory provisions relating to the educational technology initiative. Current law establishes funding consistent with the Board of Education's revised six-year technology plan as the first priority for the 1996 biennium. This bill provides details of those components of the Board's plan that will receive priority funding in FY 1996, i.e., retrofitting and upgrading existing school buildings to efficiently use educational technology, providing one network-ready multimedia microcomputer for each classroom, a five-to-one ratio of students to network-ready microcomputers, graphing calculators, and relevant scientific probes/sensors as required by the Standards of Learning, and training and professional development on available technologies and software to all levels and positions, assisting school divisions in developing integrated voice, video, and data-connectivity to local, national, and international resources. This provision authorizes the use of state funds to implement a local school division's long-range technology plan, at the discretion of the relevant school board, if the local plan meets or exceeds the goals and standards of the Board's revised six-year technology plan and has been approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This bill also revises the requirement that technology training for instructional personnel be funded by local school boards to note correctly that this funding will be as set forth in the appropriation act.


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