Memphis students to get laptops and tablets starting in August
Delano Optional Elementary students learn how to use laptops that fold into tablets while playing a get-to-know-you Bingo game on the first day of school last year. (Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat)
Laura Faith Kebede
Laura Faith Kebede is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. She leads the Institute’s Civil Wrongs project to write about historical cases of racial terror as a corps member for Report for America. You can follow her on Twitter @kebedefaith.
The school board voted 8-1 at a special meeting Monday to approve $11 million toward a four-year lease for laptops and tablets from Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.
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