Technology Department

The Technology Department provides solutions for all district-related hardware, software, network, and service needs. The district buildings are connected via a fiber optic network at both locations with a dedicated fiber optic internet connection with the Internet Service Provider (ISP). Both students and staff have access to desktops or laptops and the district maintains a 1:1 chromebook assignment for all students in grades K-12.

The department also maintains, supports, installs, and repairs the computing, mainframe, and network resources of the school district on a year-round basis. In addition, with assistance from our Student Technology Leaders, we ensure that staff and student PC assets are repaired and kept in working order. Finally, we also provide various training resources for our students, staff and community members.

It is our mission to prepare our students and staff by providing them with the tools they need to foster the best technology learning environment they can while being prepared to help when issues arise.

If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please contact the Director of Technology, Mr. Jeffrey Hoffman at (724) 785-5800 ext. 3004 or email [email protected].

California Area School District Consortium

Request for High Speed Internet Access Services

Form 470 # 260016101

District is seeking vendor proposals for symmetrical Direct Internet Access services, to 11 Trojan Way, Coal Center, PA, 15423. CAL Charter Elementary is also a recipient of service due to their presence on the campus of California Area School District.

Current access is delivered by fiber and the district wishes to continue service at or better than the current service.

Proposals must include:
Pricing for 2GB, 5GB and
13 static IP addresses
Pricing for 3 years, with 2, 1-year optional
Contracts must allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidth throughout the terms of the contract without additional
Proposals must include description of service outage reports and method for customer to report service outages, in addition to what technical support is included without additional service fees, and a proposed service level
Vendor’s proposed SLA standards. The following information is required: SLA % uptime, packet loss %, latency
Number of Tier 1 upstream
Description of Vendor’s monthly usage reports that show what times the connection is hitting peak load and what ratio of that load to available
Pro-active e-mails when equipment/service goes down as well as e-mails outlining general maintenance of the
Description of whether DDOS is a component of vendors’ standard service offering. If not, proposals must include a separate cost for DDOS mitigation. Regardless, proposals must include a description of what DDOS services are available or
Proposals must identify any and all
Any special construction charges must be outlined in the bid response. The non- discounted portion of any special construction charges will be required to be amortized over four
Proposals must disclose whether any services/circuits are being leased from a 3^rd party and if so, name that 3^rd

Disqualification reasons:

Proposal does not provide all of the information requested.
Proposal does not guarantee service to begin on July 1, 2026.
Vendor will not guarantee discounted.
Proposals will not be accepted by resellers where the underlying provider has not been identified. All costs must be included and proposals that say “additional charges may apply” will be disqualified.
If applicable, any special construction charges must be outlined in the bid.
SPAM bids will be discarded.

Proposals must be submitted to: Jeffery Hoffman at [email protected] by February 23, 2026 at 10 AM.

Questions may only be submitted via e-mail to Jeffery Hoffman at [email protected] .

PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident

On December 28, 2024, PowerSchool became aware of a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized exportation of certain personal information from PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) environments through one of our community-focused customer support portals, PowerSource. The types of information involved in this incident included one or more of the following: the individual’s name, contact information, date of birth, limited medical alert information, and other related information. As soon as PowerSchool learned of the incident, they engaged cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized senior leadership and third-party cybersecurity experts to conduct a forensic investigation of the scope of the incident and to monitor for signs of information misuse. At this time, they are not aware of any identity theft attributable to this incident.

You are encouraged to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud by reviewing account statements for suspicious activity. PowerSchool will never contact you by phone or email to request your personal or account information.

The following links contain notification and general information about identity theft protection and credit monitoring services.

PowerSchool SiS Incident Site

PowerSchool SiS Incident Site - Credit Monitoring and Identity Theft Services