Otter aide: ‘Students must be prepared for life in an online world’

Roger Brown, aide to Gov. Butch Otter, is presenting SB 1184, the new version of state schools Supt. Tom Luna’s third school reform bill, to the Senate Education Committee. He said, “Our students must be prepared for life in an online world.” The new bill shifts funds from salary-based apportionment, the main funding stream from the state that pays for teacher salaries, to pay for technology upgrades including laptop computers. “We do indeed … do more with less thanks to the efficiency of technology,” Brown said. He said the bill proposes “an unprecedented investment in training and best practices” for teachers on use of technology, plus buying laptops, first for teachers, and then in subsequent years for all high school students.