Districts Survive IEN Collapse

River City Middle School sixth-grader Jocelyn Baray works in the school computer lab in Post Falls on Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

Far from leaving them in the dark without service, the demise of Idaho’s multimillion-dollar statewide school broadband network has brought several North Idaho school districts better service at a lower cost. “We’re getting more bandwidth now than we did before,” said Seth Deniston, technology director for the Coeur d’Alene School District. “We’re definitely paying less.” “It’s a lot cheaper than I thought,” said Tom Taggart, business manager for the Lakeland School District. In fact, at least five North Idaho school districts were able to quickly transfer their broadband service from the troubled Idaho Education Network to local Post Falls firm Ednetics at big savings. And they increased their broadband speed/ Betsy Russell , SR. More here .

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