Deadline looms for Maine’s Apple iBooks in education program

“School superintendents face a deadline of month’s end for signing onto an interim program that would expand Maine’s laptop computer program into many high schools this fall,” David Sharp reports for The Associated Press. “Enough schools must agree to participate by July 30 to account for 8,400 computers – the minimum threshold for Apple Computer Corp. to agree to the same low price for laptops in Maine’s 241 public middle schools.”

“‘If that number is reached, then the program can go forward on the state-coordinated plan, much like in the middle schools,’ said Tony Sprague, project director of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative in Augusta,” Sharp reports.

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