Broward County to get iBooks
Apple announced today that it'll be supplying 30,000 iBooks to K-12 students in Broward County Public Schools. With over 272,000 students, that's roughly 9 students an iBook, a bit worse than Henrico County's 3.7 students/iBook (which are to be sold for $50 each). The biggest difference though, is that BCPS is the 6th largest school district in the nation and hopefully this deal will make other school districts take a serious look at Apple for its computing needs for the first time in 10+ years.
With its unusually large IT budget (replacing computers every 2 years), I would have personally liked to see MDCPS (Miami-Dade County Public Schools) replace my high school's computers with something other than those god-awful Gateway Profiles and Dells. Alas, it's too late for me now, but if they act quickly enough, my sister will be able to use something a little nicer than those 60Hz 17" CRTs they love to decorate classrooms with.
(via MacMinute)
