Maine schools to feel effects of stimulus
March 12, 2009 -
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on Wednesday heard the details of a plan to expand the state's laptop program to all high school students in Maine, more than doubling the size of the initiative.
Roughly 43,000 seventh- and eighth-graders, their teachers and high school teachers are now part of the state's laptop program. Gov. John Baldacci has proposed expanding the program to high school students, which would have the state leasing 100,000 computers from Apple this fall.
"It's all within existing resources," said Baldacci. "No stimulus funds, no additional funds."
Maine began the program in 2002 and 2003, distributing computers to each seventh- and eighth-grader in public schools – more than 30,000 in all.
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