The Highlands School Board has some decisions to make concerning the school's program with Questec, the Moon Township-based technology company that provides wireless Internet in all district schools.
The school board Monday has to decide if it will pursue a little more than $300,000 of federal funding available to the school system.
Later this spring at budget time, the school board has to consider hiring three staff positions to continue the program's implementation.
Representatives of Questec, as part of the company's six-month review with the school board Monday, said Highlands needs to add a systems engineer and a technology specialist.
An existing position to man a help desk is currently being funded by Questec after a grant to pay for the position expired.
The resource person, Jonathan Westergom, has resolved 2,800 requests in about 18 months.
If the school board decides to pursue the federal funding under the E-note program, Highlands would have to furnish $52,000 in matching funds.
The deadline for school districts to pursue a share of the $3.5 billion program is March. Monday will be the final February Highlands board meeting.
The money would go toward upgrading the Highlands network, a service visualization project and a backup and recovery project.
Under Questec, Highlands also is planning to start a virtual academy pilot program next school year for students who are cyber-schooled.
George Guido is a freelance writer for Trib Total Media.
