Wake schools may stop providing Chromebooks for every student. Here’s why.

The days of the Wake County school system providing computers that every student can take home may be coming to an end.

Wake County began providing Chromebooks for all 160,000 students to use while learning at home during the pandemic. But repeatedly on Tuesday, school administrators and school board members said they can’t continue that practice post-pandemic.

“The cost of technology is high,” Superintendent Robert Taylor told the school board’s facilities committee. “One-to-one is something that a district of our size just cannot afford. It’s about how we have appropriate access.”…

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