MacBook Air Units To Be Distributed To 2,200 Students In Kentucky

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A $5 million stimulus funding will allow the distribution of new MacBook Air units to 2,200 students from Owensboro, Kentucky public schools next school year. These students – from grades 5 to 12 – are not the only ones getting new laptops. Teachers and school staff already got theirs, and have been training on how to conduct classes that take full advantage of the laptop’s features.

The MacBook Air was the laptop of choice for the program because its solid-state drive technology requires low level of maintenance. Plus, the MacBook Air units (particularly the 11-inch ones, assuming those are what the kids are getting) are small enough to be used and carried around comfortably by children. As the recipients are kids, the Owensboro Public Schools School Board already approve a set of policies that ban visit to illegal web sites and gambling on the laptops over the internet.

The new MacBook Air models were released recently, with the cheapest 11-inch one priced at $999.