In the next two months, ITS will complete a comprehensive site survey of every school biulding to create an overall program budget for deploying wireless at every school in the district.  Beginning with communications from Lowell Ensey (my predecessor) last spring, we have communicated our committment to delivering this technology to the schools.  I can be more specific now as our budgeting and site assessments are coming together nicely.  It is my expectation that we will provide at least 2 and possibly 3 wireless access points to every school by next Christmas.  This networking service will provide access to at least 50 wireless computers per building.  Some buildings already have wireless in place and demands will certainly exceed this initial capacity.  We will meet those needs as they present themselves.

Additionally, we are deploying network security appliances that will enable open Internet access to non-LPS computers.  We have much of what we need in place now, all that is left is the filtering component which is presenting something of a nuisance.  Be assured that we will have it worked out soon and our community committees that meet in our buildings will be able to bring computers with them for their work in our schools.  Now if we can just get some espresso machines installed...!