[school-discuss] What converting to Linux can do for a school

[Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today, in our local paper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, it was 
reported that Brandon Elementary scored top in the District of Atlanta 
Public Schools and third in the state on the standardized tests used 
here in Georgia.  This is the school where William Fragakis and I 
converted all the old, nonfunctioning PCs into Linux thin clients 
running K12LTSP, got over 100 donated PCs from businesses, and bought 
over 60 new NTAVO thin clients at $99 each and ended up more than 
tripling the number of working PCs in each classroom.

Scores were up across the board, and math scores, in particular were up 
sharply this year.  All of the teachers have told us how much having all 
the Linux PCs have improved things, but this is the first hard evidence. 
 Not that I'm a complete fan of all the testing that goes on here 
lately, but test results are paid attention to by decision makers, many 
of the ones we want to convince of the benefits of open source software 
and thin client architectures.

Thanks to the group for all the support!  Daniel