The NJ Department of Education awarded a total of $10 million in three-year grants to local school districts in each of the state's 21 counties to provide an Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC) as a county-based resource center that offer educators professional development opportunities. Funded by the federal Goals 2000 program and state funds, the ETTCs contain demonstration technology equipment and offer training programs to assist teachers in implementing the Core Curriculum Content Standards.
The ETTC exists to serve the school districts of Middlesex County. All Middlesex County public and private school employees.
Once the initial 3-year grant ran out it was up to the districts hosting the ETTC centers to financially support the ongoing operation of these centers. Currently no statistics are available on the number of workshops offered or the number of students participating in the workshops. The ETTC's website no longer even lists the cost of individual workshops. [See for yourself at: www.techtrain.org]
Why is the East Brunswick ETTC losing money??? Apparently the Finance Committee of the Board doesn't know; the Superintendent doesn't know and the Business Administrator doesn't know. Maybe the Director of the ETTC can tell us. Maybe the Director can also tell us where the $58,000 in building improvements was spent on the ETTC in the same year that the ETTC lost $50,000. No one on the board or in the administration could answer this question on March 26th.
3/27/2009
What is the ETTC and Why is it Losing Money?
The NJ Department of Education awarded a total of $10 million in three-year grants to local school districts in each of the state's 21 counties to provide an Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC) as a county-based resource center that offer educators professional development opportunities. Funded by the federal Goals 2000 program and state funds, the ETTCs contain demonstration technology equipment and offer training programs to assist teachers in implementing the Core Curriculum Content Standards.
The ETTC exists to serve the school districts of Middlesex County. All Middlesex County public and private school employees.
Once the initial 3-year grant ran out it was up to the districts hosting the ETTC centers to financially support the ongoing operation of these centers. Currently no statistics are available on the number of workshops offered or the number of students participating in the workshops. The ETTC's website no longer even lists the cost of individual workshops. [See for yourself at: www.techtrain.org]
Why is the East Brunswick ETTC losing money??? Apparently the Finance Committee of the Board doesn't know; the Superintendent doesn't know and the Business Administrator doesn't know. Maybe the Director of the ETTC can tell us. Maybe the Director can also tell us where the $58,000 in building improvements was spent on the ETTC in the same year that the ETTC lost $50,000. No one on the board or in the administration could answer this question on March 26th.
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Prices for workshops can be located on the site by clicking on the Winter/Spring 2009 link on the initial page...see the above screen shot it is listed right there on the left
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