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

[Bryant Patten <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel -

	Congratulations - this is great news for both you and all of us 
deploying similar setups.

	Quick question - where did you buy NVATO thin clients for $99 each?

Bryant
On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:42 PM, Daniel Howard wrote:

> 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