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Ed tech may be more of a rallying point for the community than some would expect, as one K-12 district in Florida learned. The district tried once and failed to get support for a tax increase for capital projects. The second time around, though, technology was added to the referendum. The result? Funds aplenty to pay for IT initiatives across 39 campuses and for rigorous teacher training to support those initiatives. More
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In an effort to support a slate of school technology initiatives, a district in New Jersey has moved its underlying communications network to high-speed fiber. MoreThe Fedora Project has released an update to its flagship Linux-based operating system, Fedora 15. MoreA 53,000-student district in Southern California has beefed up its storage systems, switching from fibre-channel to iSCSI. MoreHP has announced several new additions to its client virtualization product line: the HP t5335z and t5565z Smart Clients, the HP 6360t Mobile Thin Client, and the HP Client Virtualization Enterprise Reference Architecture. MoreDell has rolled out two new thin clients targeted toward education: the Dell OptiPlex FX130 and FX170. MoreRed Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. More
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