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School Technology: Five School Districts' Experiences in Financing Technology Programs

T-HEHS-98-83 Published: Jan 29, 1998. Publicly Released: Jan 29, 1998.
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GAO discussed how school districts obtain funds for the acquisition of education technology, focusing on: (1) sources of funding school districts have used to develop and fund their technology programs; (2) barriers districts have faced in funding the technology goals they set, and how they attempted to deal with these barriers; (3) components of districts' technology programs that have been the most difficult to fund, and what the consequences have been; and (4) districts' plans to deal with the ongoing costs of the technology they have acquired.

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Aid for educationComputer networksComputersEducational grantsstate relationsInformation technologyIntergovernmental fiscal relationsPublic schoolsSchool districtslocal relations