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Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., became the first all- wireless, all-laptop public school in the nation in August 2005 by replacing textbooks with the Internet in the classroom.Since that initial application, approximately 500,000 students nationwide have school-issued laptops and about 600 school districts across the country use laptops , according to the International Society for Technology in Education and the Software and Information Industry Association, both headquartered in Washington, D.C. []

November 23, 2007 -VIDEO A public school district in Kansas City, Kan., is issuing free laptops to every high school student. The urban school district is dominated by poor students, and officials hope the computers will change the way teaching occurs. [] Sep. 4, 2009--SIGOURNEY -- Since it doesn't look like technology is going away, the Sigourney school district has decided to embrace it. Sigourney Superintendent Todd Abrahamson said his school board made the decision to purchase a laptop computer for every student in grades 9-12, about 230 computers in all. []

January 23, 2009 ASHEVILLE - Every Asheville High student would get a laptop computer if the city school district can find enough money to join an initiative already under way at some North Carolina schools. []

This article originally published on 12/16/2003 -VIDEO Almost one-and-a-half years after laptops began flooding Maine's middle schools, students, teachers, principals, and parents across the Pine Tree State are relaying success stories for which the portable computers are credited. []