Clarkstown Ranks Third in Mid Sized Digital School Districts Survey

In the annual Digital School Districts Survey, the Clarkstown Central School District earned the third place ranking for mid-sized districts.  The ninth annual survey is conducted by the Center for Digital Education (CDE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA). The survey highlights school boards’ and districts’ use of technology to govern the district, communicate with students, parents and the community and to improve district operations.

Clarkstown placed third in the category for districts with student populations of between 3,000 and 12,000. Marietta City Schools, GA took first place followed by Decatur City Schools, AL in second. The only other New York/New Jersey district in the category was Bergenfield, NJ in eighth place. The other categories were for school districts with more than 12,000 students or fewer than 3,000 students. No other Rockland County school districts were included. 

"Through the leadership of local school boards, we continue to see that technology tools and practices are transforming America's public schools,” said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director. "The school districts honored in the 2013 Digital Districts Survey serve as national models for education technology innovations."

The top ten rankings were awarded to those school boards/districts that implemented technology benchmarks to track the progress of digital education. Survey questions included status of usage of Web 2.0 tools, maintaining a district presence on social networking, sharing school board meeting agendas and documents online and streaming and archiving meetings, allowing public digital participation in meetings, percentage of curriculum strategy with digital content.