Birmingham, Alabama schools getting 15000 OLPC XOs {Engadget}

Dec 5th 2007 8:01AM Birmingham city schools; closing ragged old buildings, attempting to enforce dress codes for teachers, manipulating no child left behind assessment results, losing students by the hundreds every year, but a knock off laptop will save them! The mayor's article yesterday is a "build it and they will come" speech. This will be another multi-million dollar deal wasted for birmingham city schools.