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Boston Broadcasts the Internet into All Public Schools, LibrariesBoston officials are claiming that theirs became the first large urban center in the United States October 26 to offer Internet access at every public school, public library, and community center. The two-year-old initiative has upped the workstation-to-student ratio districtwide from one computer for every 63 pupils to one for every 10, the Washington Post reported October 27. Mayor Thomas M. Menino has vowed to narrow the gap by 2001 to one computer for every 4 students. The $125-million drive has attracted $26 million in private funding so far. "Here in the education city, there are no information haves and have-nots," Menino declared October 26 at the Mather Elementary School. Fourteen-year-old student Jason Nichols seems to agree. "Some books have the information that you want and others don't," he told the Post. "But you can always go into a computer and get the articles you want." |
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