Resources:
Strategies for Funding Technology

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"Identifying Costs and Sources of Funding," in "KickStart Initiative: Connecting America's Communities to the Information Superhighway," prepared by the United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. Available at www.benton.org/Library/KickStart/kick.identifying.html.

"Investing in School Technology: Strategies to Meet the Funding Challenge," (School Leader's Version) National School Boards Association's Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education, 1997. A version of this report is available on the U.S. Department of Education Web site at www.ed.gov/pubs/techinvest/.

"Resource Guide to Federal Funding for Technology in Education," U.S. Department of Education. Available at www.ed.gov/Technology/tec-guid.html.

"Smart Budgets for a Digital Age," is a project sponsored by Bell South Foundation that makes tools and research papers available to school districts to help them budget for technology. The site includes a tool for estimating the cost of the tech support personnel a district is likely to need. Available at www.bellsouthfoundation.org/pubs/budget/budget2-1.htm.

The experiences of five school districts are detailed in "School Technology: Five School Districts' Experiences in Funding Technology Programs," published by the General Accounting Office in January 1998. Available at www.gao.gov/archive/1998/he98083t.pdf.