Luna Isn’t Backing Off Laptops

A read through the new school-reform bill introduced today, SB 1184, yields some surprises: It still seeks to provide a laptop computer to every Idaho high school student. It just pushes the plan back a year, providing laptops and training to teachers in 2012-13, then to a third of high school students the following year, continuing until there’s one laptop for every student. It still envisions requirements for online courses; the state Board of Education would be charged with setting rules requiring online courses as a graduation requirement starting with the Class of 2016 - that’s students who start 9th grade in the fall of 2012/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .

Question: Are you surprised that Luna hasn’t given up on plans to put a laptop in every student’s hands?