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Each Board of Cooperative Educational
Services Regional Information Center, working cooperatively with other BOCES within
its regional service delivery area, is required to prepare a regional plan for providing
technology services in the regional service delivery area. This plan must be submitted
to the Commissioner on or before the first day of December of each year. Each plan
must outline the actions completed during the prior year, current technology efforts
in the region, and a five-year projection of major tasks to be undertaken.
Consistent with prior policy, each regional plan must have a signoff from all District
Superintendents (Section 6) within the regional service delivery area. Each plan
must also include a statement assuring that new and existing technology services
were analyzed using an appropriate cost-benefit methodology and that existing services
were analyzed using an appropriate cost-effectiveness methodology. (Section 7).
Cost-effectiveness is defined as
- When the same or better results can be achieved for less dollars
- When the results can be improved with the same dollars
- When an increase in dollars will provide greater results than the incremental increase
in cost
All plans must conform to the following format
- One summary page for each of the first seven sections of the plan
- Section 8 should include all applications and services provided through the 7710
and 6360 Co-Sers, using the format and categories mutually agreed to by the Regional
Information Centers and the Department
- Should additional information need to be included, links may be inserted in the
plan referencing information available online at the Regional Information Center
- Only if information is unavailable online should it be appended at the end of the
plan format
- Specific descriptions of individual services should not be submitted separately.
Regional Information Centers are encouraged to provide the plans and any supporting
documentation online at the Center, with the caveat that the plan is a draft until
it has been approved by the Department
- Each plan must be submitted electronically by December 1 of each year, to
the address below. If the plan is not received in a timely fashion, approval to
conduct this particular service within the region may be jeopardized.
Complete plans should be submitted to:
rkesper@mail.nysed.gov. Signed assurances (Sections 6 and 7) should be mailed
to the address below.
Should paper copies of supporting documentation be necessary, they may be mailed
to:
Office of District Superintendents and BOCES
New York State Education Department
876 EBA
Education Building Annex
Albany, NY 12234
Note: all links below lead to a document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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