CUSD board approves K-6 Wireless Expansion Project

The Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) Governing Board met Wednesday night and approved the K-6 Wireless Expansion Project for all elementary schools throughout the district.

Overview of the K-6 Wireless Expansion Project includes: installation and cabling of 1,000 Access Points; Wireless Management Suite for all devices and Aruba Care Support for one year; and Aruba ClearPass Access Manger Sever, licensing, and support.

Superintendent Dr. Camille Casteel spoke to members of the board about how the K-6 Wireless Expansion Project will be implemented throughout the 28 elementary schools in the district.

Knox Gifted Academys wireless expansion has already been completed.

The K-6 Wireless Expansion Project will cost a little more than $1 million, which will be taken from the bond election and a gift from Intel thats specific to technology expansion within the district.

Weve utilized those funds to help pay for services for our schools and support the technology efforts, she said. We still have money in the gift fund that will cover this. We thought that this was an excellent use, rather than delay this another two years deepening on the success of a bond election.

Casteel anticipates the expansion will be completed before the start of the 2015-16 school year.

The wireless implementation across all our elementary schools allows us to present more viable solutions to having a less-distributive-testing environment on a campus versus hard-wiring, said Dr. Matt Strom, executive director of research and accountability. We can be a lot more innovative with how we schedule assessment, and thats why I think wiring all the elementary schools is a necessary step in becoming ready even though its not necessarily required.

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