SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) — On Wednesday, the Scranton School District held a financial recovery meeting over zoom to discuss next year’s school budget.
The biggest area of discussion was the technology department where they outlined the district-wide improvements like updated Chromebook and active panels being installed in each classroom, cost savings, and long-term planning. After describing each area of savings, they announced that the school district would save 650 thousand dollars this year from only the tech department budget thanks to investments in long term use.
“In the budget for the IT department, we reduced that from by $650,000 from the prior year. Again, as Chris mentioned early in the presentation, it really was, I think, a strategic approach to how we’re going to utilize our Esser dollars that allowed us to actually do this. Again, we invested in, I think, you know, some items that have a long term, useful life that allowed us to reduce our expenses for 2026 and most likely for 2027 as well. {>}
Also in the meeting was the rising enrollment in the cyber academy which sees over 750 students and is funded through the ready to learn block grant with its newly enlarged budget and celebrations about general cost cutting, smart savings, and more efficient systems which save time and money for students, parents, and administrators.