Columbus City Schools is reversing its policy of providing take-home Chromebook laptops to younger students, citing unsustainable loss and breakage.
District administrators shared the policy update with the Columbus City school board at its Tuesday meeting. Russell Brown, CCS chief of strategy and performance, said the district will be providing classroom sets that cannot be taken home in K-8 classrooms. High schoolers will continue to be able to take home devices.
Brown said part of the district’s nearly $100-million levy promise was to reassess the district’s take-home device policy, particularly because of loss and breakage, “and needing to come up with a more sustainable model.”
“We were between a little bit of a rock and a hard place — the model we had in place was not sustainable moving forward,” Brown said. “We looked hard at where loss and breakage was occurring and how we could have a sustainable model moving forward.”
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