Mount Greylock Building Committee Grapples With Technology Issue

One Mount Greylock School Building Committee member pressed hard last week to make sure the new school is part of the digital age – in every sense of the word.

IBerkshires.com reports that Richard Cohen pushed back hard against a decision not to purchase classroom whiteboards that are compatible with the touch-screen capability in the projectors the district has purchased — challenging both the decision itself and the process by which it was made.

Cohen, who has called in the past for greater committee oversight of purchases in the $64 million addition/renovation project, convinced his colleagues Tuesday to appoint a working group to gather information on whether the whiteboards already purchased by the district can be switched out without adding undue cost or creating a schedule delay in the project.