“Beginning this coming school year El Dorado High School’s freshmen and sophomores will be included in the school’s computer learning initiative. At its regular monthly meeting Monday night the USD 490 school board gave its unanimous approval to extension of the school’s ‘One-to-One’ laptop computer program to the ninth and 10th graders,” Steve Smith reports for The El Dorado Times (Kansas).
“This past year the program, which provides an Apple laptop computer to each student for use both in the classroom and at home, was launched with the EHS junior and senior classes,” Smith reports. “At Monday night’s meeting school board members gave their approval to a four-year lease-purchase agreement with Apple Computers through which the district will be acquiring the laptops for the freshmen and sophomores. The same kind of agreement was used to acquire the laptops EHS juniors and seniors began using during the 2004-05 school year.”
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MacDailyNews Take: One-way tickets from Henrico to El Dorado are rumored to have already sold out to those with above average IQ.
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