Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge grand jury indicted Elster on Feb. 19, moving his case from District to Superior Court, where he will be tried...
...Superior Court transferred Elster's bail from the District to the Superior level, and his bail requirements remained the same...
...staccato clicking of keys on computers. In this hard-knocks Washington Heights school, where a substantial number of the students qualify for free lunches, a hardwired revolution is taking shape. All the students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year and leased to the students for $30 a month. The reports they are about to present are high-speed, full-color Power Point jobs. And when teacher Janice Gordon wants her class's attention, she commands, "Screens at 45[degrees]!" At the end of class, the students will...
...Gingrich casually suggested giving tax credits to poor families to buy laptop computers but soon backpedaled from the proposal and called it "a nutty idea." In this low-income Manhattan neighborhood, the idea of 11-year-olds toting $1,500 laptops to school is so nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks in its classrooms...
...from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after a swell of parent demands, expanded the program this fall to 1,000. In Texas, state-school-board president Jack Christie is pushing a proposal to junk textbooks and outfit 4 million students with portable computers complete with...