Few, if any, K-12 school systems have the luxury of purchasing a complete IT infrastructure system all at once so that it’s perfectly integrated from the start. Instead, most districts add IT components gradually as their budgets allow. One system for managing student data, another for a learning management system, and so on. During this slow build up, technology evolves, district leadership and staff change, and the district’s needs change.

With less-than-careful management, non-integrated IT systems can become many-headed monsters that keep district IT staffs in permanent firefighter mode running from flare-up to flare-up. Schools and districts can become burdened with disparate systems, needlessly redundant functions, and shelfware.

This whitepaper uncovers the hidden costs of disparate K-12 IT systems and outlines ways to reduce these costs within IT systems management, business operations (back-office) functions, and classrooms.

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