I have reservations. If you as a school believe that most current and external information is paramount, then networks is what you need. If you believe that free flow of internal information is important, then networks is what you need. If you believe that the real and most important use of information is in the classroom among the faculty and students, then networks ARE NOT what you need. Instead, you may want more high powered in class work stations that teach how to think and feel, and the data need not be current.
Most English teachers use books written in the last several hundred years.
Science teachers use books and examples that teach what we have learned over the past fifty to one hundred years. Until now, schools have used technologies and data that goes back tens and hundreds and thousands of years. Snap your fingers, over night, we now need the stuff that is just minutes and no more than a few days old. We need to be networked and in constant communication. Yes, some of this is important.