The third prong of the Roosevelt Union Free School District technology plan is to provide quality access to technology for students and employees. The integration of technology will have limited impact on student learning if there is no regular access to hardware and software that meets the instructional needs of the learner. Through a five year standardization plan, The Technology Department will purchase the necessary hardware and networking equipment to have a computer available for every employee and a minimum student to computer ratio of 6:1. RUFSD is constantly looking for ways to leverage our funding to provide the best possible access for our students.

RUFSD staff and students have increased the integration of technology into learning and working, we have become dependent upon local and wide area networks’ reliability and speed. RUFSD uses PowerSchool as our student information system. PowerSchool houses all student demographic information, schedules, attenadnce, parent information, assessments, program services, as well as other NYS required information. As we continue to expand PowerSchool we will begin to look at PowerLunch, which allows food service to track fees and balances and the grade book option for teachers.

Roosevelt has replaced many of its older computers and increased the number of computers per classroom. Because of this we have taken great care in designing our network with the best equipment.

The main core network is located in the District Office where we have a 6513 switch with several fiber modules. This device allows us to centrally manage our wiring plant and “fan out” all network connections from our server room. This room is also the location of our MDF, email server, content filter, firewall and
data store for the school and district as well as the Telephone PBX. We have placed a variety of Cisco data switches and included fiber connections where necessary. Every computer and networkable printer is connected to a local area network. Depending on the physical size, each LAN will have multiple IDF’s connected back to the MDF via fiber. All schools have at least one lab and one mobile wireless laptop lab. Each classroom has been wired with at least 2 Category 5 network drops. With all classrooms located within the newly constructed buildings containing 10 network drops each.

The Middle\Senior High School and the District Office are co-located. This structure has 2 bonded T1 lines coming into it. These T’s provided the schools and the district offices with web services such as email and Internet browsing. Future plans include creating a WAN by using fiber to connect each school to the district office. This will facilitate providing Internet services to the elementary schools.

Roosevelt Union Free School District has gone to great measures to balance the need for students to quickly access all of the resources available on the Internet with the need to provide a safe surfing environment. This means providing a large and reliable pipe to the Internet and blocking inappropriate web sites. The 2 bonded T1’s is a centralized service connected to the LAN backbone. The content filter reduces the chances that a student or other Internet user will see inappropriate materials. Words such as hate, terrorism, sex, hacker, extreme and gambling have been blocked. A student or staff member can submit a site to the Technology Department for review. We manage the hardware and software centrally.

The Roosevelt Union Free School District has also installed a firewall to protect our network from malicious activities. This system reports on all suspicious activities coming into our network and can even drop packets that it deems harmful.

Roosevelt Union Free School District 3-Year Technology Plan (2008-2011)
The district has also implemented Cisco Security Agent software which provides threat protection capabilities for server, desktop, and Point-of-Service (POS) computing systems. This security software goes beyond conventional endpoint security solutions by providing an industry-leading defense against targeted attacks, spyware, rootkits, and day-zero attacks. Cisco Security Agent offers proactive protection against unknown threats that have not been seen before, along with new exploits and variants that are trying to take advantage of published and unpublished vulnerabilities.
Cisco Security Agent provides zero-update system integrity protection for critical servers and POS terminals that cannot be taken out of service to apply operating system or application-specific vulnerability patches. This capability helps reduce the need for emergency system patching in response to vulnerability announcements, and minimizes patch-related downtime and IT man-hour expenses. With Cisco Security Agent, we can also patch on our own set schedule, rather than waiting for an emergency.

Cisco Security Agent provides numerous benefits, including:

· Regulatory policy compliance enforcement
· Preventive protection against targeted attacks, spyware, malware, and worms
· Identify and Quarantine rootkits
· Industry-leading host intrusion prevention, personal firewall, and day zero attack protection
· Optimization of Wi-Fi bandwidth
· Helps ensure the availability of critical client-server applications and transactions

The goal of the Department of Instructional Technology and Information Systems is to provide all learners, teachers and support staff with the most reliable, efficient, flexible and technologically advanced service as possible. We believe that our plan for the next 3 years will meet this goal.