| 10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing field for students |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Maine legislators approved — after months of doubt and debate in 2001 — Gov. Angus King's proposal to give every seventh-grader in Maine a laptop. Ten years later, each seventh- and eighth-grader in Maine public schools and every grades 7-12 teacher has a laptop paid for by state taxpayers, at an annual cost of $11 million. And, through the Maine Department of Education, 60 percent of Maine high-schoolers have laptops, paid for by local property taxpayers. That's a total of 72,000 laptops, according to the DOE. The annual cost for the high school laptops is about $7 million, or $242 per student. The price includes technical development for teachers, support and repair. |
| Source: Sun Journal )ME-USA) | Published: March 21st, 2011 |
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