Los Angeles's mayor recently announced a private/public effort, called School2Home, to bring technology to low-income students. At Stevenson Middle School all 660 sixth-graders will be receiving computers that they can use at school and take home with them. For the next two years, successive sixth grade classes will be issued computers until all students in this 6-8 middle school have laptops for 1:1 use.

The ultimate goal of School2Home is to provide computers to more than 500 low-performing middle schools and up to 400,000 students and families across California. Funding comes from several private companies (AT&T, Comcast, Google and Verizon) and from the California Emerging Technology Fund, established by the state of California as a condition for approving the mergers of SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI in 2005.

Teachers will receive three days of training on how to integrate technology with curriculum and the students' parents will also have six hours of training on how to use the computer.

Source: Students at LA Middle School get computers to take home