| From Lunchboxes to Laptops: How Maine Went One-to-One |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| On March 2, 2000, Maine Governor Angus King unveiled a new program “From Lunchboxes to Laptops,” officially known as the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. As the Bangor Daily News reported the following day, Starting in 2002 and then every year into the indefinite future, the state would provide each of Maine’s 16,000 seventh-graders with a portable computer, plus free Internet access, that the student would keep and use through high school graduation. |
| Source: Hack Education (USA) | Published: March 11th, 2015 |
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