The Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
(RIDE) established a $20 million capital bond project to increase the technical
capacity of Rhode Island districts and schools by improving school and
classroom wireless infrastructure (WIC). WCI is critical for RIDE to execute its
educational improvement initiatives and to participate in the Federal Race
To The Top program, a $4.35 billion United States Department of Education
contest created to spur innovation and reforms in state and local districts’
K-12 education. Upon completion, WCI will allow students to take advantage
of the growing trend for personal computing devices for academic research,
instructional software and to participate in secondary and college preparatory
proficiency testing. The project will involve approximately 350 schools in 57
districts and is scheduled to be finished in June of 2015.
