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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meantime, some school-district administrators have come up with creative solutions. Superintendent Jerry Vaughn of the Floydada Independent School District in Texas - which has 900 or so students - says he is working toward a partnership with a local wind-power company that would pay for a laptop for every kid in grades 6 through 12. At the fast-growing Forsyth County Schools District in Cumming, Ga., Bailey Mitchell, chief technology and information officer, recently opted to use free open-source software instead of purchasing expensive software licenses from vendors like Microsoft. Mitchell says the decision will save $1.1 million over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Reading, Writing and Recession Work Together | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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