The Clarendon CCISD Board of Trustees met in called session Monday, March 23, to approve purchasing new computers for high school students.
Technology Coordinator Butch Noble presented pricing to the board and asked for approval to purchase 125 new laptops to replace ones currently being used by students. Noble said the current computers will be evaluated with the best ones kept and redistributed to younger grades.
He encouraged the district to make the purchase now because the prices for computers are rising with the demands for chips and memory being affected by datacenter and other world market forces.
Interim Superintendent Larry Jeffers said a rural education grant will be used to pay up to about $30,000 of the cost of the new computers.
Trustees approved a motion to by 125 new computers for $53,360.
In other school news, Jeffers informed the board that he had accepted nine resignations for the upcoming school year – Korey Conkin, Terri Luna, Jayson Pigg, Courtney Dunn, Lindsey Baker, Madalyn Hadley, B.J. Owens, Kynna Phillips, and Erin Shaw. The board acknowledged the resignations.
Board President Wayne Hardin reminded the board of an upcoming called meeting on April 9 to review applications for superintendent and said there are currently nine applicants for that job.
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