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| | Rural District's Partnerships Bear Fruit in Three Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The payoff is a powerful technological foundation that has enabled the district to offer services such as e-mail, graphical search mechanisms, fiber-optic speed, audio/video online capabilities, "take-home" computers, public library access to the Internet, staff training on curriculum and technology integration, automated libraries, automated school lunch program, central office telecomputing, tech-prep curriculum and much more. |
 | | In just three years, a rural school district in a town of 5,000 people was able to develop a multi-faceted technology service with over 330 networked workstations for 950 students -- beginning with $50,000 and the existing 26 Apple IIeĆs in 1992. |
 | | Back in the Beginning The motivation for moving the district in the direction of being a regional leader in technology began with its school board. |
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