Get Ready for a Real Barn-Burner

A big issue in metro Atlanta education news is Cobb County's plan to equip all teachers, high school and middle school students with laptops. Bids were put in by several companies, including Dell, HP, IBM and Apple. Apparently, they decided to go with Apple.

Let's not mention that pretty much 95% of the current thousands of computers county-wide are not Mac OS. And neither are software licenses, but I digress.

What I find even more interesting is how I received this little release today that cites a meeting that hasn't even been held yet. Today is Tuesday, the article references a meeting that will be held tomorrow! An excerpt:

The Cobb County Board of Education on Wednesday heard details of an enterprising plan to prepare students to succeed in the 21st Century’s global information-based society, creating the largest one-to-one computer learning initiative in the United States. Superintendent Joseph Redden will begin contract negotiations with Apple to work out details of the Power To Learn program, which calls for the company to provide approximately 63,000 iBook G4 laptops for students and teachers in grades 6-12, plus a comprehensive package of training, technical support and server upgrades. The school board will consider the first phase of the plan in March.
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Wednesday, February 23
7:00-8:00 PM
Mabry Middle School
2700 Jims Road
Marietta, GA 30066

Emphasis added by me.

I'll see if I can get the PDF of tomorrow's press release posted later this evening.

All I want to know is who got their pocket padded the most?