Some Devices Arrived, Still Waiting On Othes

Some school districts across North Alabama told WAAY 31 it could be sooner rather than later before they get back ordered Chromebooks.

543 are from the last 14 days.

Some good news tonight for some parents when it comes to coronavirus.

Today, some school districts across north alabama told us it could be sooner rather than later before they get delayed and back ordered chromebooks.

Waay 31's max cohan is live after learning they still won't arrive before classes start.

Both scottsboro and huntsville city schools are still waiting on the delivery of hundreds of devices they ordered for this year.

While they had been told to expect delays to last months -- some schools are now expecting delivery in a matter of weeks.

"we're glad we're getting what we're getting in the four to five weeks.

I would have loved to have had them earlier, we ordered those somewhere back in mid-june.

Obviously, with things the way things are, things are just a little out of whack on delivery."

Superintendent of scottsboro city schools jose reyes said the district is still waiting on the 500 chromebooks ordered for students.

Reyes says the district only had 165 students request laptops and should have enough until the new shipment arrives.

His distributor originally told him the laptops could arrive any time between late october and december, but now expects to have them in about a month.

"we are almost one to one at every school, but what we were doing is to make sure we had enough computers at school and at home."

Huntsville city schools is also delaying with "supply chain disruptions."

According to the district -- huntsville schools is providing all students with devices for the upcoming year but the district is still waiting on new laptops.

In a statement to waay 31, huntsville city schools said "new students will use a loaner device, and returning students will continue to use their previously issued district devices until the shipment arrives."

Huntsville city schools did not say when it expects the devices to arrive but both districts say they will still be able to provide devices to all those who need them.

Reporting in athens, max cohan, waay