This might be part of the reason .... "California's schools to lay off 25,000 staff" California may fancy itself as the fifth largest economy in the world, but when it comes to funding its school system it is a calamity... http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=394432 ============================================================ From: Jonathan Hughes <declaretruth@yahoo.com> Date: 2003/04/03 Thu PM 10:02:06 EST To: seul-edu@seul.org Subject: Re: [seul-edu] ISO evals Hey Guys, To encourage everyone on how important this project is, I just had a phone consultation with a school district in California. They were very interested in Linux and have started to setup test systems. The educational software coordinator, Nondra, was having a very hard time finding the good educational applications that run on Linux. I let her know about this project and am going to send her a Freeduc CD. However I don't know the content of the Freeduc CD, I am sure they do not have all the educational applications on the CD. The school officials that are considering using Linux desperately NEED a good source for the educational software that is available. They need some thing that makes it easier for them to get hands on and demo software, it would be a nightmare to go all over the internet to get the available software. So I am letting you know that the frontlines need this tool. Thanks for everyone's work. Regards :), Jonathan Hughes Linux In Education Portal http://www.linuxineducation.org --- snip --- ===============================================================
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