{"id":1602,"date":"2013-08-31T01:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2013-08-31T02:09:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T08:09:40","slug":"ischool-controversy-in-the-salt-lake-city-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/ischool-controversy-in-the-salt-lake-city-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"iSchool Controversy in the Salt Lake City School District"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the 2013 Legislative Session, SB 284-\u00a0Educational Technology Amendments<\/strong> <\/span>was passed into law. Modifies a pilot project known as the Smart School Technology Program by requiring the State Board of Education, to issue a request for proposals for the deployment of whole-school one to one mobile device technology in public schools.<\/p>\n

I questioned the school district’s process in applying and being awarded this grant. See my blog entry:\u00a0Public School Bureaucracy Running Amock (Again!)<\/a><\/p>\n

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PDF Link: District Response to my GRAMA Request<\/a><\/p>\n

“It was anticipated that approval by our school board would happen when the approval for funds were included in the purchasing report” \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
Janet Roberts, Business Administrator<\/pre>\n
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PDF Link: Michael Clara Response to GRAMA <\/a><\/p>\n
As one who has a fiduciary responsibility over\u00a0<\/span>
\nschool district finances,<\/span><\/h2>\n
I want you\u00a0to know that I find your explanation highly suspect: <\/span><\/h2>\n
\u201cIt was anticipated that\u00a0approval by our school board would happen when the approval for the funds were<\/span><\/em>
\nincluded in the Purchasing Report\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
I do not believe that the intent of the law was to have a local school board approve\u00a0a grant application via a purchase order buried in a consent agenda. <\/span><\/h2>\n
Aside from\u00a0the specifics of this particular law, <\/span><\/h2>\n
I find this practice troubling on several levels.<\/span><\/h2>\n
Michael Clara, Board Member<\/pre>\n
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  In the 2013 Legislative Session, SB 284-\u00a0Educational Technology Amendments was passed into law. Modifies a pilot project known as the Smart School Technology Program by requiring the State Board of Education, to issue a request for proposals for the deployment of whole-school one to one mobile device technology in public schools. I questioned the school district’s process in applying and being awarded this grant. See my blog entry:\u00a0Public School Bureaucracy Running Amock (Again!)   … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,66,77,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}