One County, 23,000 Laptops - Henrico County, Virginia schools to lease computers from Apple - Brief Article

Instructor, August, 2001

Is the laptop becoming the new backpack? In Henrico County, Virginia, as part of a four-year, $18.5 million technology initiative, school officials are leasing 23,000 laptop computers from Apple Computer for all middle and high school students and teachers. Starting this fall, students in grades 9 through 12 will receive the 2001 version of Apple's iBook and grades 7 and 8 will have their own computers in 2002. By 2003, all sixth-graders will receive the computers. The district has already started handing out computers to high school teachers. "The students now are the generation of digital learners," said Henrico Superintendent Mark A. Edwards. "They will have access to a wealth of knowledge. This is the direction that everyone will be going in the near future."

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