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  Rell Proposes Buying Laptops For Schools
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News DateTuesday, February 8, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionIn the budget Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell plans to present to the General Assembly this week, $15.5 million is set aside to purchase laptop computers for high school English classes.

"If we want our students to be on the leading edge of learning, we've got to provide cutting-edge technology and teaching innovation," Rell said. "Laptops go far beyond improving keyboarding skills."

Education Commissioner Betty Sternberg proposed the initiative last fall as a way to improve high school students' writing ability.

If the plan is approved, 19,000 laptops would be purchased for the state's 600 ninth and 10th grade classrooms. About 300 classrooms would be equipped by the 2005-06 school year, and the rest would have the technology by the following school year.

The laptops would not be given to individual students. The computers would be kept in locked units in each classroom.
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