Robertson County Schools installed wireless networks throughout all of its schools in a two-year, $2 million project funded by a variety of sources.
By Russ Gager
The days of blackboards are long gone from education. Nowadays, students need to keep up with the constant evolution of communication devices, and school boards are scrambling to find the funds to install wireless communication systems such as school-wide Wi-Fi and to purchase tablet computers to access the Internet.
Robertson County Schools in Springfield, Tenn., is meeting the challenge of this new era of communications with a district-wide Wi-Fi system. “We are equipping all of our new and old facilities with wireless capability,” Director of Schools Mike Davis says. “We’ve been working on this project for at least two years getting it up and running.”