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Computers for students in Spring Hill Elementary, Middle and High Schools to be returned unless school district funds remaining $705,000 of lease by May

Ronnie Daniels by Ronnie Daniels
February 13, 2019
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The Maury County Public School District is continuing to investigate ways to fund its DIPLOMA program – an initiative aimed at seeing students receive their own personal computers – and discussed its options Monday to find additional funding by the end of the school year. Currently, the school district leases its computers for students and needs to find an additional $705,052 in the budget in order to keep the current supply for the 2019 – 20 school year, lest they are returned.

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A committee consisting of Superintendent Chris Marczak, school board members Donna Morency, Howard Beaver and Bettye Kinser convened Monday afternoon in Columbia, all determined to find the means to keep the district’s current computer supply.

β€œWhere we’re at is exactly where we were at last year, so what happens is the leases don’t actually run out until the end of the year,” Marczak said. β€œWe’ve got about $705,000 that we have to fund in May, or what happens is those devices have to get sent back before the school year is out.”

First introduced in late 2016, the DIPLOMA initiative aimed to see every student attending a Maury County school from grades 3 – 12 receive their very own, personal laptop; either a Lenovo or a Chromebook. Due to extensive budget cuts last July, the program’s funding was axed, leaving the remaining $705,052 needed to keep the leased computers up in the air as to how it could be funded.

During the meeting of schools leaders, multiple ideas were proposed as to how to come up with the remaining balance needed to keep the computers.

β€œIt could either be from property tax, it could be from donations, it could be from grants,” Marczak said. β€œWe’re basically looking under every single rock as to what we can do to make sure that we don’t have to send devices back from May.”

Among ideas proposed during the meeting was a partnership with the education consulting company LEAN Frog. The partnership, Marczak explained, could see the sale of mobile hotspots through LEAN Frog, allowing for purchasers to access the internet on the go, with a portion of the proceeds going towards the school district. The offer, Marczak said, would not be available to regular consumers, and could only be purchased through the partnership at a reduced price.

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Other ideas floated during the meeting included raising property taxes, soliciting donations, implementing a half a cent fuel tax increase, and continually applying for grants, both on a state and federal level.

After the DIPLOMA initiative saw its funding axed last year, the school district has lowered its goal of issuing every student a computer for the time being, and instead have aimed to have a 2:1 ratio of students to computers. The eventual goal is to see there be a 1:1 ratio of students to computers, which the district hopes to achieve by the 2023 – 24 school year.

Right now, Spring Hill High School currently has 424 computers issued for its 1,165 students and is aiming to reach the 2:1 ratio soon, which would require 610 computers. Spring Hill Elementary and Middle Schools have a student population of 320 and 578, respectively, and will only need a combined amount of 428 computers to reach the 2:1 ratio.

For now, school leaders are exploring every available option to find the funding, but are hoping that in future school years, the DIPLOMA initiative will be able to be funded on an annual basis from the school district’s general budget.

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Zombie enthusiast. Internet guru. Unable to type with boxing gloves on. Bacon geek. Evil gamer. Spent 2001-2008 training junk food in Pensacola, FL. Spent 2001-2004 merchandising cod in Orlando, FL. Spent high school summers consulting about ice cream in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Spent 2002-2007 writing about crayon art in the government sector. Spent 2001-2008 building weed whackers in Los Angeles, CA. Spent 2001-2004 buying and selling saliva in Naples, FL.

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