Checklist: Should Your K–12 School District Delay Making Networking Upgrades?

Cybersecurity is a high priority for K–12 administrators and IT leaders. It was the No. 1 technology pain point for survey respondents in the Consortium for School Networking’s “EdTech Trends and Funding: A CoSN Member Survey 2022.” The survey also found 83 percent of districts planned to expand cybersecurity initiatives.
An increased need for cybersecurity has led to a call for additional funding for this educational priority. While schools are investing in technologies to keep their infrastructure and information safe, some experts recommend an additional route to better protection.
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The COVID-19 pandemic essentially ended the conversation about whether school districts should embrace one-to-one programs that put a computing device into the hands of every student.
“During COVID, a large number of individual devices were deployed,” says Amy McLaughlin, Cybersecurity Initiative director at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). “We exited the conversation of, ‘Should we do one-to-one?’ and entered the conversation of, ‘How do we maintain one-to-one?’”
Historically, many school districts have struggled to build device refresh cycles into their operating budgets. Often…

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