(TNS) — Many North Carolina public schools say they don’t have the money to replace the aging laptop computers they give to students, according to a new state report.
Schools used federal COVID aid to provide students with Chromebooks and other personal devices they use in school and at home. But with the COVID dollars gone, a state report presented this week shows 82 of 115 school districts and 101 of 221 charter schools/laboratory schools and regional schools can’t afford new devices.
State Board of Education members and their advisors said something needs to be done to ensure that schools can continue to provide every student with their own device that is also up-to-date…