With the help of funding for schools affected by Hurricane Katrina and reward money for rising test scores, a Louisiana high school this fall will become one of the first in the state to dump textbooks in favor of laptop computers and an all-digital curriculum…."This is on the cutting edge, not only for our parish but also the state," Bolton High School Principal Bill Higgins said. "This is the wave of the future. We are excited to be able to offer this to our students."

Students in Bolton's gifted program, plus all 11th-graders and the majority of its seniors, won't be issued textbooks but will be given an Apple iMac computer on the first day of school. The students will be allowed to take the computers home. "We are immersing the curriculum in technology," Higgins said….

Bolton High will become wireless so students can receive internet service as far out as the football field…. The school is converting an old typing classroom into an internet cafe that will be open later in the afternoon, so students who do not have internet access at home can get work and studying done…. In addition, the students will be able to use "hot spots" throughout the community….

Teachers… will receive laptop computers and projectors for their classrooms. The computers will be maintained and repaired on campus, so that if a student has a problem with one, he or she will simply turn it in and be issued another.

eSchool News,  April 1.