Does Your District Need a Technology Audit?

Does Your District Need a Technology Audit?The tech audit is a prime example of data-driven decision making and how appropriate research and evaluation tools can be used to provide useful information for district planning.“sell” anything; rather, an auditor’s job is to pro-ost districts are required by law to vide an analysis of data. A tech audit for a medi-conduct a yearly financial audit, dur-um-sized school district will likely cost between Ming which an independent third party $20,000 and $50,000, depending on the number examines the district’s financial statements and of schools and scope of the audit. For example, writes an opinion on whether those financial a district might only want an analysis of the statements are relevant, accurate, complete, and network server topology, or they might want a fairly presented. Similarly, some schools engage more detailed look at each school’s subnet and independent firms to conduct curriculum audits a security analysis. Once presented with these to determine if what they are teaching in their data, a district can begin the process of develop-classrooms is aligned to their published curricu-ing a technology plan that measures more than lum documents, and whether their published the “wires and pliers” aspects of technology. curriculum is aligned to what is tested on state The district can develop a tech plan that is inte-and national accountability measures. However, grated with and supports the school ...