An annual report from the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) superintendent revealed that technology devices worth millions of dollars were reported lost or stolen “without appropriate search and recovery efforts.”
The fiscal year 2023 annual report released Tuesday said CPS schools reported 77,505 technology devices lost or stolen during the 2021-22 school year, totaling more than $23 million in original purchase price.
The findings, the result of the county’s first post-COVID-19 inventory, called the figure “unacceptably high” and said surveillance processes needed a “serious overhaul.”
The report said the missing items included laptops, iPads, Wi-Fi hotspots, printers, document cameras and interactive whiteboards.
“At three dozen schools, 100 percent of technology devices specifically assigned to students were marked missing or stolen, inventory data showed,” the district’s report said.
Chicago Public Schools reported 77,505 lost or stolen technology devices during the 2021-22 school year, according to the fiscal year 2023 annual report. patrick – stock.adobe.com Lost or stolen technology devices cost Chicago Public Schools, as they totaled more than $23 million in original purchase price.
During the same school year, CPS spent more than $124 million on “technology assets,” which the report said was the most in the past five school years.
“In a District of our size, some loss of devices is to be expected, but we remain concerned about the loss of any public asset,” CPS said in a statement to Fox News. “Our CPS team will work to streamline our systems for tracking resources, including devices, while enforcing compliance with Board policy.”
The district’s statement added that they are working to change processes, improve systems and hold school leaders accountable for asset management policies.
Laptops, iPads, Wi-Fi hotspots, printers, document cameras and interactive whiteboards were listed as missing items. Fabio Principe – stock.adobe.com
“In a district where over 72 percent of students are from economically disadvantaged families, it is important for us to be sensitive to our families as we undertake any device recovery efforts,” the statement said.
CPS added that due to depreciation, the devices referenced by the OIG report are currently worth $2.5 million, the majority of which are “over five years old,” and as of Monday, more than 12,000 of the 77,000 devices cited had been recovered.
“It’s just a waste (and) that’s what our office is here to deal with and that’s what we’re doing,” CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher told WGN-TV. “Our work revealed an incident where there was a pair of siblings, a brother and sister at school who lost 9-10 devices between them, (and) there was no record or indication that the district contacted the family saying this was an issue. try to figure out what happened.”
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