Nine out of 10 K-12 technology leaders expect their IT asset inventories to grow this year, while 48 percent believe that their IT budgets will diminish, according to a new survey by Incident IQ and reported in Education Slice.
Incident IQ, a workflow management platform built for K-12 schools, recently polled Technology Leadership Council members. Three-quarters of the surveyed IT leaders named device loss or breakage as the biggest challenge they had faced for student devices in 2023.
When asked what kept them awake at night for 2024, 78% reported it was cybersecurity threats and 61% pointed to staff shortages; 44% said they won’t be able to sustain their current staffing level over the next three years.
“Even as we remain committed to providing districts with all the tech support they need, the reality is that today, IT leaders may have to do more with less,” said Sarah Lawrence, Assistant Director of Technology Support at Mukilteo School District. “To meet these growing demands, we’ll have to shift our processes and platforms to focus on workflow technology that is efficient, cost-effective and streamlined. Only in doing so will we be able to make progress in our core mission, which is to help students learn.”
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