From the Bloomington Herald Times:
MCCSC board members reiterated the need for a $2 million digital learning initiative during a public hearing Tuesday.
Last month, the board approved the initiative and agreed to sell $2 million in bonds to help pay for the project that aims at providing iPads to every student by 2016.
On Tuesday, during a regularly scheduled board meeting, the board held two public hearings regarding the sale of the bonds and reiterated why the project is needed in the district.
“What we need to do by this, and what we are doing by this, is offering more opportunity to the students instead of cutting them off,” said board member Lois Sabo-Skelton. “Plus, the fact is today you can’t go through life without some introduction to computing. That doesn’t mean this will be the way you will produce your artwork or final writings or whatever, you can still hold that book in your hands. There is a cooperation with the two and that’s what we’re after.”
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Superintendent Judy DeMuth acknowledged that the district’s current infrastructure cannot support the technology initiative but reiterated that part of the $2 million will be used to fix that problem.
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According to Comptroller Tim Thrasher, the board will continue with the necessary steps to sell the bonds and should receive the money by the middle of September.
The estimated impact on the MCCSC property tax rate is estimated to be .7 of one cent, according to Thrasher.
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http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2012/05/23/schoolnews.board-reiterates-need-for-bonds-for-digital-learning-initiative.sto?1337797537
