District taking out RFP to examine financial status
Waterford Graded school officials will be sending out a request for proposal (RFP) for financial services in the near future in an effort to gage the stability and solvency of the district.
The issue was discussed at a School Board Personnel and Finance/Negotiations Committee meeting last week. Superintendent Chris Joch had asked committee members whether the district should keep its investments collateralized – a practice currently being followed – or seek out a different rate of interest. The consensus was to maintain status quo.
“I would say we’re good where we are,” said School Board President Dan Jensen, who chairs the committee. “I wouldn’t modify our policy at all.”
District officials laud one-to-one laptop program
With a full semester now under way, Waterford Graded district officials discussed the new one-to-one laptop program that has been implemented in the seventh grade this school year at Fox River Middle School.
“I’m happy with how it’s been going,” District Technology Administrator Kannan Heath said at a School Board Technology Committee meeting last week.
Waterford Graded purchased about 170 laptops at a cost of $60,000; parents chipped in an additional $20,000 to bring the initiative to fruition.
“I’m impressed with the respect the kids have demonstrated,” Fox River Principal Darlene Markle said of maintaining the laptops.
Heath and Markle said there have been several issues documented, including problems with hinges, screen issues and keys not working properly. A help desk has been addressing most of the issues as they have arisen.
District to spend more than $140,000 in technology initiatives in 2012-13
Waterford Graded School District officials have outlined plans to spend $141,145 in technology initiatives in the upcoming school year. Details were unveiled last week at a School Board Technology Committee meeting.
The bucket list includes $60,000 toward laptops for incoming seventh-graders at Fox River Middle School, $55,720 toward infrastructure upgrades, $12,000 toward software license renewals and $13,425 toward phone system improvements at Fox River.
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