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East Grand Rapids Public Schools is considering a plan that would require all third through 12th graders to use wireless devices in class by the fall of 2012, according to a school official. But the district is considering holding parents responsible for acquiring the technological devices, which is raising some eyebrows. Jeanne Glowicki, the East Grand Rapids Public School assistant superintendent of instruction, said parents would be given options of how to get the wireless devices. “Parents will be given a menu of options which include purchase, lease, technology tools used already in their home, use school technology tools, and...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-national-broadband-plan Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 16, 2010 Statement from the President on the National Broadband Plan America today is on the verge of a broadband-driven Internet era that will unleash innovation, create new jobs and industries, provide consumers with new powerful sources of information, enhance American safety and security, and connect communities in ways that strengthen our democracy. Just as past generations of Americans met the great infrastructure challenges of the day, such as building the Transcontinental...