MASSENA — Massena Central’s technology director is proposing the district use part of $2.4 million in Smart Schools Bond Act funding to add more Google Chromebooks in classrooms.

“The plan is grades [kindergarten] through four, we’re looking at a cart of 30 for each grade level … so each class will get 10 of them,” district technology director Mike Allen told the Board of Education on Thursday, adding that another 25 per classroom are planned for grades five and six. Another 25 would be distributed among special education classrooms.

In the junior high, he wants to add one laptop per student. They would be linked to Google Classroom, with students taking them from a charging station in the morning and returning them at the end of the day.

“A lot of teachers over there are into Google Classroom,” Allen said.

He said he also wants more Chromebooks at the high school for testing and “we’re going to add some for special ed.”

Other uses for the Smart Schools money could be adding tech so events like graduation could be broadcast live online, but none of this is expected to be added right away.

“We’re kind of hoping we’ll have it for possibly the fall or early winter,” Allen said. “We don’t have to spend that $2.4 million all at once.”

They have already used some of the money, which came in during the 2014-15 school year, for tech upgrades.

“The first round went pretty well … we upgraded our existing wireless, just over 330 wireless access points in every classroom,” Allen said. He said around the same time as those improvements, they also got Chromebooks, keyless entry doors and upgraded camera servers.