What costs are incurred to become operational?
Start-up: Retrofitting of the existing classroom. Rooms must have proper lighting, power, cabling, acoustics, color, carpet, and multi-purpose desks and chairs. Costs vary from site to site, with a range of several hundred dollars to perhaps $10,000 – depending on the district s needs. If a district were in a building construction program, this would be the ideal time to work with the building s architect to provide for the optimum environment. Classroom equipment and multi-media set-up A customized classroom can range from $45,000 to $60,000 depending on the levels of multi-media that are included. Due to economy of scale, individual classroom build-out costs can be much lower if the partnership purchases multiple classrooms at once. Consultants and engineering Consultant and engineering costs vary depending on the number of schools involved. Using a consultant and design engineer will actually cost the partnership less in the long run because the resulting network can be scalable. It
