by Mike Hasten, the Advertiser
Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell says schools wouldn’t have an Internet problem if Gov. Bobby Jindal had not rejected an $80.6 million NASA grant offered to the state to provide high-speed Internet to underserved areas of the state. “He gave away $80 million,” Campbell said. “Out of 240 grants given across the United States, Louisiana was the only state to reject it.The report shows Louisiana public schools have more than 197,000 computers but only 67,038 of them (39 percent) meet current technology specifications required to administer online tests. There’s a chance that as many as 100,000 of the current computers could be upgraded to meet testing specifications. But if that’s not possible, the report says, school districts across the state would need to purchase a minimum of 37,000 devices to handle online testing demands.
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