EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS
From the New Hampshire Department of
Education
Office of Educational Technology
Date: May 22, 2002
Volume: 2002.05.01
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SPECIAL ISSUE: New Federal
Technology Funds
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The Office of Educational Technology here at the NH
Department of education has been very busy trying to understand the new No
Child Left Behind legislation and it's implications for educational technology
in New Hampshire. Our intention is to maximize the impact of the few federal
dollars we will be receiving, as well as make the process for our school
districts to access services and funding from NCLBA easier. The following is a
description of our best thinking to date as well as a proposed timeline for
activities. Please contact us with your suggestions for consideration.
1.
NCLBA
contains Title II Part D entitled Enhancing Education Through Technology or
E2T2. This replaces the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF).
Any TLCF projects that are currently outstanding must have their monies
obligated prior to June 30, 2002, and reported on the district quarterly.
If there are outstanding monies after September 2002, they will be reallocated.
2.
E2T2
has two parts. One part has about $1.5 million to be divided among school
districts based upon their Title I participation. Some schools will
receive little to no dollars from this portion. The second part of the funds
($1.5 million) will be used to form consortia of school districts to provide
services locally. This is more fully explained in the draft of our State
Educational Technology Plan, currently available online at http://nheon.org/oet/stateplan/nhtp2002.htm.
3.
A
draft of the State Educational Technology Plan will be posted at http://nheon.org/oet/stateplan/nhtp2002.htm
until the end of May 2002 for public comment. Please read the plan and
send us your thoughts.
4.
The
tech survey format used last year gave us many problems so we decided to host
the survey in-house. We have had numerous issues trying to configure a
server for the technology survey for this year.
We are pushing forward on this and hope to have it available before the
end of June. This may not be not a good solution for school personnel who
planned to complete it before the academic year ends, so we have revised our
timeline. When the tech survey (on-line) is available, school districts
will have throughout the summer of 2002 to complete them. This
looks like we're losing a year's worth of data, but actually we will be getting
data at the appropriate time of the school year.
5.
Technology
plans are another issue we are grappling with. Our state technology plan
has to be revised in order to receive the new No Child Left Behind monies.
We expect the USDOE to approve our plan in the early summer 2002. After
that happens we will have to revise our technology planning guide to
incorporate any changes. Changes are probably minimal, however district
technology plans will have to reflect them. In order to receive any
monies from E2T2 a school district must have an approved technology plan. To
make this easier, we are going to have you "cut and paste" technology
plan elements that correlate to the requirements into an electronic format we
will provide. This is somewhat like a crosswalk between whatever
technology plan your district has constructed and the required elements.
If your school district is in the process of developing a technology plan,
please continue the work.
TIMELINE:
May 2002
State
Educational Technology Plan comments due to the NHDOE by May 31, 2002
June 2002
NHDOE will
submit State Educational Technology Plan to the USDOE
Local NH
School Technology Survey will be available online
August
2002 Revised
Technology Planning Guide and electronic submission of crosswalk will be
available
October 4,
2002 Electronic crosswalk of the school district
technology plan is due at the NHDOE
Technology Survey (online) must be completed by each school building within the
district
Applications for E2T2 funding will be available
January 17, 2003
Deadline for applications for E2T2 funding to
NHDOE
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Regards,
Cathy Higgins for the
Staff at the NHDOE Office of
Educational Technology
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