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Schools Save Sans State Network

The savings are continuing to mount after the demise of the Idaho Education Network, the defunct statewide school broadband network that went dark when a judge ruled the state’s $60 million IEN contract illegal. The service, aimed at providing broadband internet service, video conferencing and more to every high school in the state, shut down in February, and state lawmakers set aside $3.64 million for school districts to negotiate their own broadband service contracts with the vendors of their choice, after pulling back $5 million in funding that was to go to the IEN. The final, year-end numbers are in now, and the districts spent only $2.2 million of that amount; the other $1.37 million is being reverted back to the state general fund/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here .

Question: There’s gotta be a moral to this story. Anyone care to figure it out?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog