Thursday, May 23, 2019

North Judson-San Pierre School Board Approves Agreement for New iPads

Posted on May 23, 2019
Author Michael Gallenberger, WKVI

North Judson-San Pierre students will soon have access to new iPads. The school board Tuesday approved a lease agreement with Apple that will allow the school corporation to get 420 of the devices.

Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin said it’s part of the school corporation’s “devices on demand” initiative. “So every fourth, fifth, and sixth grader will have a device,” she explained. “They will not go home yet. We’re working on that. But they will have it at school. And then every English and Language Arts teacher will have a set of 30, and every Math teacher will have a set of 30 at the junior/senior high.”

To pay for the iPads, Zupin said N.J.-S.P. will continue a lease program for another two years with an annual payment of almost $60,000 that had already been budgeted. But beyond that, the school corporation will also make an up-front cash payment of almost $128,000, using money from last year’s general obligation bond issue for technology upgrades.

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