At the beginning of this school year, the Marysville School District’s Instructional Technology Department applied for and received a $2.18M federal grant via the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) to replace out-of-warranty Chromebooks for our middle and high school students. With this grant, they purchased enough new Chromebooks for the upcoming school year. This grant is especially helpful to continue to support students’ instructional technology needs, as the District’s last capital levy expired, and no additional revenue will be received. These grant funds are one-time dollars that can only be used to purchase the devices.
Chromebooks with an expired warranty force the District to pay out of pocket to repair any damages that may occur. The newer Chromebooks purchased with these grant dollars will save costly repair fees.
Upon collection of the expired warranty devices at the end of this school year, the Department will keep around 1,000 for replacements should a student’s new device be damaged, lost, or stolen.