House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1830

Computer Readiness Pilot Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Franklin Till, Jr.

Organization:

Broward County School Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Computer Readiness Pilot Project

Date Submitted:

01/27/2000 4:45:48 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Ron Greenstein

Service Area:

County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Broward

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Broward County School Board

Contact:

Franklin Till, Jr.

 

600 SE 3rd Avenue, 10th Floor

Contact Phone:

(954) 765-6271

 

 

Fort Lauderdale 33301

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start a pilot project to replace hard cover student textbooks with miniature CD Rom readers and disks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

Reduce cost of K-12 books by 35% thereby reducing the cost of education by 35% without reducing the quality of education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

Reduce the number of books the students would carry which would help the student as well as the security of the school by decreasing, if not eliminating the need for school lockers.

 

Provide teachers and students with more upto date curriculum guides and textbooks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

No

 

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

No