This is a matter for the school heads and governing bodies to decide if it is proper. A spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said the government is not interested in looking in to the matter.
The school district is recommending that the board implement the laptop purchase in stages, with the first phase consisting of giving laptops to teachers and to four schools on a test basis, according to a statement posted on the district's website.
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The scheme will cost the school $850 per laptop - a slight increase on the $500 to $600 Empire High spends on a set of textbooks for each pupil, Calvin Baker, superintendent of Vail Unified School District, told the Arizona Daily Star.
The article said the district may still go ahead with plans to give laptops to teachers since school officials already had promised them a "computing device" in the materials they distributed before the sales tax passed in 2003.
Gateway is plugging two security devices into its machines, including a technology to help customers track down lost or stolen laptops that is similar to a LoJack car security system, which allows police to track and recover stolen vehicles.