Edmonds School District No. 15
Lynnwood, WA 98036-5789
7396 - ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (NETWORKS)
Adopted
4/5/96
The Board of Directors recognizes that the district is implementing an electronic communications system (network) that will allow unprecedented opportunities for students, staff and patrons to communicate, learn, access and publish information. The Board believes that the resources available through this network and the skills that students will develop in using it are of significant value in the learning process and student success in the future. These new opportunities also pose many new challenges including, but not limited to, access for all students, age-level appropriateness of material, security, and cost of maintaining ever more elaborate systems. In particular, on a global network, it is impossible to control all materials, and an industrious user may discover inappropriate materials. The district will endeavor to ensure that these concerns are appropriately addressed, but cannot ensure that problems will not arise.
By creating this network, the Board intends only to provide a means for educational activities and does not intend to create a first amendment forum for free expression purposes. The District dedicates the property comprising the network solely for educational activities including District-approved extra-curricular activities authorized under this policy and procedures, and grants access to it under the specific limitations contained therein.
The Board requests that the Superintendent provides the widest possible access to electronic information systems and networks by students, staff, and patrons while establishing reasonable controls for the lawful, efficient and appropriate use and management of the system.
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