Cobb County board approves Apple contract
updated 01:00 pm EDT, Fri April 29, 2005
Cobb County
The Cobb County school board yesterday evening for what could become one of the nation's largest efforts to provide laptop computers to students, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "You've got to look at what works for kids," said board member Johnny Johnson, before joining a 5-2 vote in favor of the contract. "Give them a tool they know how to use much better than we do." The Cobb school district's more than 7,100 teachers may get their state-of-the-art Apple iBooks as soon as July. In the next few weeks, four high schools will be designated as pilot sites, where students will get iBooks sometime next school year. The first phase of the program also calls for upgrading middle school computer labs starting next fall. The Cobb program eventually could distribute 63,000 Apple iBook computers grades six through twelve.
63,000 more tigers
04/29, 01:33pm reply
WOW!
macsNeverSayDie
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neat.
04/29, 01:37pm reply
V3r1f1483 pwn4g3!!!1
PookJP
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Excellent!!!
04/29, 02:34pm reply
This will do good things to my stock value, Thanks Apple Education Sales! Not to mention helping the "market share" number. Ship 'em fast before somebody changes their mind.
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zac4mac
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Win some, lose some...
04/29, 02:37pm reply
Headline at Macminute site goes like this: "Henrico school board picks Dell over Apple"
"The board's vote gave Superintendent Fred Morton IV authority to pen a deal with Dell for 15,800 laptops in a program that is to cost $17.9 million over the next four years."
bmyers2
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Stupid-asses
04/29, 06:12pm reply
Don't they know that henrico county had macs and changed to dells. There must be a reason. These people will be doing the same thing in a few years. Mark my words! (No, I mean it, MARK MY WORDS!)
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