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Posted on 06/02/2005 12:44:35 PM PDT by Panerai
Former Cobb County commissioner Butch Thompson filed a lawsuit earlier this week to stop in its tracks a program that would put thousands of Apple iBooks in the hands of Georgia schoolkids and teachers. At issue is how the funds for the program have been allocated and how voters were informed.
The iBook lease plan was approved by the Cobb County School District early last month. The first phase of the “Power to Learn” program puts 17,000 iBooks in the hands of teachers across the district and at four “demonstration site” high schools. The rollout to teachers has already begun.
If the plan succeeds, 63,000 iBooks could ultimately find their way into the hands of Cobb County schoolkids. That would make Cobb County’s “Power to Learn” program the largest ever one-to-one computer learning initiative, according to Apple.
Cobb County School District PR director Jay Dillon explained to MacCentral that the money for the program was taken a tax revenue program in Georgia called Special Purpose Location Option Sales Tax, or SPLOST. The state of Georgia allows individual counties like Cobb to levy an extra sales tax of up to two percent to fund capital improvements in the county, including the purchase of new computer systems.
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Teachers are failing to teach kids. Must be because the kids don't have computers.
I'm a big Mac fan, but the idea that giving kids computers will solve a problem with incompetent teachers is ridiculous. Sort of like the liberal idea that spending more on welfare will solve poverty problems.
bump!
nice PR campaign for apple...
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The guy's a hero. Johnny and Suzie can't even read -- and you want the nanny-state to buy iBooks. Un-freaking-believable.
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