Successful initiatives need sustainable funding!

• Find creative ways to find startup money
• Repurpose current funds
• Integrate funding throughout current programs (Tech is not an add-on!)

Lesson Learned: If you think this is expensive, you should try not doing it!

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What are your Funding Successes?

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Parents pay for laptops

Millage

Refinancing bonds when interest rates dropped

Federal funds for instructional specialists and professional development

Computers for labs turned into laptops for teachers

Textbook funds used for electronic resources

Charge parents a fee - saves software costs (distribute over three years)

Shift staff to provide support

Shift textbooks to curriculum budget (software, etc)

Service center for Gateway - get paid to provide support

Having leaders, elected officials visit to buy-in

Keep seperate ledger for laptop program; transparent

$1 Buyout Three Year Lease agreement model.

Student ownership after lease.

Grant can help with infrastructure but not good for the actual laptops.