Cobb County deal

The says recent articles and editorials in the Marietta Daily Journal have misrepresented facts by suggesting that Superintendent Joseph Redden could have secured a better deal for Cobb’s laptop computer initiative than it received from Apple. The newspaper reported that Henrico County, VA schools signed a lower-cost contract with Dell Computer to continue that school district’s four-year-old laptop initiative. "The newspaper is wrong to suggest that Cobb County could have secured the same deal that Dell agreed to with Henrico. As the newspaper is fully aware, Dell is one of four vendors that did bid on Cobb’s plan to provide laptops to teachers, upgrade middle school labs, and establish four high school pilot sites where the district will test the concept of issuing laptops to students. Dell’s proposal for the four-year lease came in $3.6 million higher than Apple’s."

by MacNN Staff