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Laptops came later in central, southern areas of school district
- 04-23-2010
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Blog by Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
Schools in the central and southern areas of San Diego Unified -- which tend to be less affluent -- are more likely to have gotten student laptops later than other schools, district data show. All schools in San Diego Unified will eventually get laptops this school year as part of a sweeping plan to install digital whiteboards and other technology in classrooms, said Darryl LaGace, who oversees technology in the schools. It's paid for by a school renovation bond that voters passed two years ago. But some schools got the laptops sooner than others. As of the beginning of April, 38 out of the nearly 200 schools in the district were still waiting for laptops. They were disproportionately likely to fall in the southern and central areas of the school district represented by Richard Barrera and Shelia Jackson -- something Jackson wasn't happy about when the school board saw the data. Check out this map to see it for yourself. (more...)
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