In Partnership with MDR
Sponsored by SchoolDude

K-12 IT Leadership Survey
 Tracks information on K-12 Ed tech priorities, IT leadership characteristics, staffing, and budget
 Conducts the survey annually
 Highlights technology trends, challenges and priorities
 Identifies changes over time
 Informs the decisions CoSN makes to provide its members with meaningful and relevant tools and resources.

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1000
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2014 IT Projects / Priorities
Weighted Ranking

Top Three Priorities/Initiatives for 2013
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Assessment Readiness
Broadband Access
CoSN IT Leadership Survey, March 2013 http://www.cosn.org/focus-areas/it-management/it-leadershipsurvey

18% are fully prepared for 2014Assessments and
11% have no resources for 2014 Assessments

17% fully implemented BYOD and
20% no BYOD Policy

83% say Digital Resources will be 50% or more of the instruction resources

What is your projection for the technology budget over the coming year
Comparison of 2013 and 2014
Decrease in Budget No change in Budget Increase in Budget
19
34
62
19
2013
57
9
2014

• Privacy concerns have recently received significant media attention
• Privacy concerns expressed by parents and policymakers have been increasing
• Interestingly, privacy ranked very low on the priority list for IT leaders despite this public debate.

68% Delay or defer outdated resources
How do you plan on overcoming budget and funding issues?
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
68%
59%
49%
45%
44%
39%
22%
20% 20%
10%

Team Building/
Staffing, 8.95
Budgeting; 10,2 Technology Management;
21,87
Stakeholder Relations,
10.89
Data Management; 11,51
Project Management;
17,19
Professional
Development; 12,49
Strategic Planning; 13,74

High School
CTO Education Levels by District Type
Associates Degree Bachelors Degree Post Grad Work Masters Degree Doctorate
Very Large Over 50000 3 5 14 5
Large 1500-50000 2 18 4
Medium 2500-15000 4 5 11 8
Small Under 2500 5 9 15
Suburban 2 6 10 7
16
Urban 3 5 15
Rural 7 8 17
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14
58
60
59
60
55
48
49
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18
13
16
12
8
5
More than 50% have Masters or better

CoSN’s E-rate and
Broadband Survey
Denise Atkinson-Shorey

99% of districts need additional
Internet bandwidth and connectivity in the next
36 months.

• 43% of the school districts indicated that none of their schools can meet the goal of 100Mbps of internet access per 1,000 students today.
• This goal has been advocated by the State Education
Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the
LEAD Commission Blueprint and reinforced by
President Obama ConnectED.
• Only one quarter of districts responded that 100% of their schools meet the goal
SETDA, The Broadband Imperative: Recommendations to Address K-12 Education Infrastructure Needs (2012), http://www.setda.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=353&name=DLFE-1517.pdf
LEAD’s National Education Technology Initiative: A Five-Point Plan (2013), http://www.leadcommission.org/sites/default/files/LEAD%20Commission%20Blueprint.pdf
ConnectED : President Obama’s Plan for Connecting All Schools to the Digital Age (2013), http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/connected_fact_sheet.pdf

1. Internet Bandwidth
2. Wireless in a school
3. LAN connectivity within a school
4. WAN connectivity between the school and the district

The two biggest barriers for schools
• Ongoing monthly costs
(79% agreement)
• Cost of capital or upfront/nonrecurring expenses
(59% agreement).

What type of Backbone within the building does your typical school have?
Copper Wireless
Fiber None

57 % of districts do not believe their school’s wireless networks have the capacity to handle a
1:1 deployment today
How confident are you that the typical school’s wireless network would have the capacity to handle a 1:1 deployment this fall?
Very confident
Somewhat confident
Somewhat doubtful
Very doubtful
Don't know

The Federal Communications Commission has made E-rate reform a major priority for 2014.
CoSN has been working closely FCC to identify strategies for strengthening and updating the program for the long term:
• significantly greater investment in the program
• refocusing on high capacity broadband
• streamlining and simplifying the application process
• promoting local control and flexibility.

Will be a Multi-Step Process
• Near term program adjustments focused on 2014 funding window
---coming soon
• Further notice after November on more complex items

• Apple – $100 million in iPads, MacBooks, and other products along with content and professional development tools
• AT&T – $100 million to provide middle-school students free Internet connectivity over their wireless network for three years
•
Autodesk
–$250 million to expand the company’s “Design the Future” program to be available to every secondary school in the country
• Microsoft – $100 million to launch a substantial affordability program open to all U.S. public schools by deeply discounting the price of its Windows operating system, which will substantially bring down the cost of Windows-based devices
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• O’Reilly Media – Partnering with Safari Books Online to make over in educational content and tools available, for free, to every school in America
• Sprint –$100 million to offer free wireless service for up to 50,000 low-income high school students over the next four years, valued at
•
Verizon
– $100 million in cash and in-kind commitments for a multi-year program to support the ConnectED vision

• CoSN Leadership Report www.cosn.org/leadershipsurvey2014
• CoSN E-rate and Broadband Report www.cosn.org/erateandbroadband
• School Dude 2013 Survey www.explore.schooldude.com/IT
SurveyLandingpage.html
• MDR www.schooldata.com/product_releases/mdr_statek12markereport12.htm
• ConnectED www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defalutlfiles/doc/connected_fact_sheet.pdf
• USAC http://www.usac.org/sl/
• Federal Communications Commission www.fcc.gov
• National Telecommunications and Information Agency www.ntia.gov
• The National Broadband Plan www.broadband.gov/plan
• State Education Technology Directors Association www.setda.org
• State E-rate Coordinators Association www.seca.org
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Schools, Healthcare and Libraries for Broadband www.shlb.org

Denise Atkinson-Shorey
– denise.shorey@e-luminosity.net

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