Northville schools will all get new desktop and laptop computers for $3.5 million.
Northville high school and middle school students will start the 2013-14 school year with new computers and interactive white boards. The technology bond projects were approved by voters in the November 2012 election. The district's technology upgrades start this summer at Northville High School, Hillside Middle School and Meads Mill Middle School. Upgrades at the district's six elementary schools will begin in the fall. "We're most excited about, from an educational standpoint, our classrooms getting outfitted with interactive audio visual systems," said David Rodgers, Northville Public Schools human resources director. New technology equipment in the classrooms will include: More than 3,600 desktop and laptop computers with the latest …
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Improvements include new PCs, interactive white boards and replacing some of the school buses.
A technology bond, approved by voters in the Northville Public Schools district in November, will start to make improvements to the schools' technology plan this spring. The bond will be issued in two series, the first at $16.27 million will start this year and the second at $4.6 million will start in 2017. Improvements through the series will support the schools' technology plan for at least the next 12 years. Despite the millions of dollars that will be invested, residents' taxes will not change from last year. The millage rate will stay the same, said Mike Zopf, assistant superintendent for finance and operations for Northville Public Schools. Residents currently pay about 4.3 mills and will continue to pay that much, he said. Zopf …
Aysha Jamali
11:32 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
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