CoSN Surveys:Leadership, Broadband and E-rate

The Survey

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.

2014 Top Three Priorities

2014 Assessm

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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-leadership-survey

18% are fully prepared for 2014Assessments

and 11% have no resources for 2014

Assessments

17% fully implemented BYODand

20% no BYOD Policy

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

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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

Current Budgets are not adequate enough to:

47%support existing equipment 53%meet board expectations 52%implement new classroom

Privacy ranked low in Priorities

• 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68% Delay or defer outdated resources

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How do you plan on overcoming budget and funding issues?

Percentage of CTO time on tasks

Technology Management; 21.87

Project Management; 17.19

Strategic Planning; 13.74

Professional Development; 12.49

Data Management; 11.51

Stakeholder Relations, 10.89

Budgeting; 10.2

Team Building/ Staffing, 8.95

50% will retire in over 10 years

More than 50% have Masters or better

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Medium 2500-15000

Large 1500-50000

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CTO Education Levels by District TypeHigh School Associates Degree Bachelors Degree Post Grad Work Masters Degree Doctorate

59% of salaries are under $100,000

A Look at Broadband and E-rate

CoSN’s E-rate and

Broadband Survey

Denise Atkinson-Shorey

Key Findings

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

Key Findings• 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 goalSETDA, 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

Top Priorities

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

school and the district

Barriers The two biggest barriers for schools

• Ongoing monthly costs (79% agreement)

• Cost of capital or upfront/nonrecurring expenses (59% agreement).

Internal Connections

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

Erate Update

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. 

Erate Update

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

Over $750 million in private-sector commitments• 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

• O’Reilly Media – Partnering with Safari Books Online to make over in educational content and tools available, for free, to every school in America

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• 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

Resources

• 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 • Schools, Healthcare and Libraries for Broadband www.shlb.org

Contact Information

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

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