Inclusion, as well as our english language learners. I think there are much better ways to serve those families with this technology. And then i just wanted to congratulate the Family Technology survey. This is really great to have data on hand and be able to see and to really [inaudible] some of the myths weve maintained about the level of technology up take among or families. Our families. I would urge that we think about chinese language content and we now as a city have embraced [inaudible] as a language that all of our government documents are supposed to be translated into. And now the cost of translation, while still not insignificant, is a lot lower than it used to be because of some of the automatic Translation Services that we can use as a base. Of course you always want to have a native speak ergo through native speak ergo through the content. I think it is a good picture of where we need to be, but theres going to be a lot of work to be done, but i urge my colleagues to kee
Digital district is that those become dynamic and so that students are interacting with them on a screen rather than simply printing them out and looking at them on the screen. Thank you. That was a good short answer, i appreciate that. And then the last question i had, which was on slide 15, which talks about the Digital District will be executed over a three year period. I guess im going to ask a couple of questions and maybe you can give me a paragraph of an answer. Im curious and maybe you mentioned it and i missed the front end of your presentation, but how are we [inaudible] how are we going from the old process, all the work were in the midst of, and transitioning into this new three year period. Is there any overlap . Also as i look at this one, two and three year, if were talking about connectivety here and educator devices and what they need to be able to do, the Management Systems and the resiliency dont start until year two and then sort of using your airline, airplane exam
Were not reaching. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. I had in regards, i just want to make a comment to what you said commissioner norton. I can understand that sort of thinking which would get us over a huge hump and serve so many families, but i also see that as disadvantaging the families, that really we need to get to as well because that puts them behind them again. And thats always sort of the balance were trying not to do thats not my intent at all. Of course not. I just wanted to note that because as you were talking about it, i was trying to think that makes sense to try to get a huge, you know, group of our families taken care of, but then that means our other families are waiting. Yeah, its one of those dilemmas that i trust [inaudible] be working through. My first question and comment and thats the only question i have in regards to this survey, you know, in regards to how do we get emails for all of our families as quickly as possible and im just going to throw out and hope
An putting it on a four year refresh cycle and i think we need to do that. One of my questions for you is have you identified actually funding for this or is it more like this is an ask as part of the fundamental development strategy. Ill take a first stab at it. Great question. Its a yes and yes. So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were always getting the latest equipment in place, but its been a fascinating journey because it also requires you have a really robust acid Management System where you can track and account for that kind of a system so that requires some enterprise systems as well, which is dependent on technology. So this is its all interconnected and its all leveraging upon itself, but thats a very good question. I
So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were always getting the latest equipment in place, but its been a fascinating journey because it also requires you have a really robust acid Management System where you can track and account for that kind of a system so that requires some enterprise systems as well, which is dependent on technology. So this is its all interconnected and its all leveraging upon itself, but thats a very good question. I think were finally at a place where were actually moving in that direction in a very tangible way. I think there are some more details on that. Thank you. I wanted to make one piece of additional information. So the educator laptop devices if you noticed in the presentation there was a reference to