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A number of states conduct regular surveys and inventories to assess how their schools are progressing in managing a variety of TCO-related issues. Here are some examples:

California: The State Department of Education, along with the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) conducts an annual survey on the amount and type of technology in schools. Schools are asked to update their data annually. See www.cde.ca.gov/edtechsurvey/index.html.

Florida: The Florida Department of Education's Division of Technology conducts an annual Technology Resources Survey that measures the progress that schools in that state have made toward specific technology goals. See www.doe.firn.edu/edtech/tpi/trs/html/index.shtml.

Maryland: The state has created an online data base to let schools provide information for the state's technology inventory. Details are available at msde.aws.com.

Massachusetts: The state of Massachusetts collects annual data from school tech plans to track state-wide benchmarks for such things as tech support levels, staff development and high-speed bandwidth. More information is available at www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/standards/execsum.html.

New Jersey: Information about the state's annual survey of technology-related benchmarks, and a summary of findings, is available at www.state.nj.us/njded/techno/survey/index.html.

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania has implemented a technology inventory survey that is designed to assess the support that districts are providing for such budget components as tech support and staff development. The tool can be accessed at www.etechplanner.org.

Washington: The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction completed a building technology inventory in March 2001. The results, from 2,080 buildings, are available at www.k12.wa.us/edtech/survey.asp.

States sometimes publish guides, guidelines, technology plans and technology specifications that can help school districts in making technology-related decisions. Here are some of them.

Arizona: Arizona Society of Technology Directors, "Technology in Arizona: A K-12 Perspective," published in 1997. Available at www.aztea.org/resources/whitepaper/.

California: California Department of Education, "Connect, Compute and Compete: The Report of the California Education Technology Task Force, 1996. Available at www.cde.ca.gov/edtech/ccc/.

Maryland: "State of Innovation: The Maryland Plan for Technology in Education, 1999-2003," prepared for the Maryland State Board of Education, December 1998.

New Jersey: Division of the Ratepayer Advocate, State of New Jersey, "Before 2000: Funding Technology in New Jersey's Schools and Public Libraries by the End of the Century," 1997.

Ohio: "The Importance of TCO and Support in Technology Planning," is a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Sam Orth, executive director of the Ohio SchoolNet Commission. It incorporates information from the CoSN TCO project and other sources.

Pennsylvania: The state has created an online Technology Inventory system to collect data about the technology capabilities of local education agencies. This tool is located at www.pde.state.pa.us/ed_tech/cwp/view.asp?A=169&Q=50396.

Texas: "Helping Schools Make Technology Work: Managing Information Technology from Classrooms to Lunchrooms," April 2000, prepared for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Carole Keeton Rylander. Available at www.window.state.tx.us/tpr/tspr/tech10.html.

Virginia: "The Technical side of Networking," in "The K-12 Technology Handbook," Virginia Department of Education. Available at www.pen.k12.va.us/go/VDOE/Technology/Tech_Handbook/nets.html.