Our district makes you pay $20/year for "chromebook insurance" which means if the chromebook just dies for no reason you _don't_ have to pay to repair it, and if it gets damaged or lost you _only_ have to pay $100 to replace it. I think they paid $300 for them new when they first ordered them...
four years ago. I can't tell you what they budget for it per year since it gets rolled into the "instruction" line item which is $7k/year/student, but it's definitely not a huge fraction of that.
Well that sounds less than I thought, but then again I don't know how much the physical textbooks used to cost
Yeah, I don't know all the math on it either, but the books had a shelf life of 7 or so years, but then you have to figure each student needs them for 6-8 classes a year. One Chromebook sees them through all of high school. With my kid's disability, he does better typing than writing, so it's great.