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Students use the technology to explore the world beyond their classroom, to conduct research and, in many cases, to connect to teachers for courses offered through distance education.
Teachers use computer programs to update report cards, conduct research for lesson preparation and connect with students and other teachers.
Over the years, the investment in computer systems has been enormous as schools try to keep up with a rapidly developing technology.
In last year's budget, the province set aside $2 million for a K-12 Technology Integration program.
The money would help purchase 500 new computer systems — two for every primary and elementary school across the province; 300 new computer systems to supply each school with a new high-end computer system and accompanying video camera system (for viewing of microscopic images) to aid science instruction in K-12 classes; 50 computer systems for 25 schools piloting a new skilled trades course; and 350 refurbished computer workstations.
New measure encourages telling IRS of tax cheats
The Internal Revenue Service estimates that the difference between what Americans owe in federal taxes and what they actually pay every year is about $345 billion annually. To close this huge "tax gap," Congress and President Bush enacted a measure in December designed to give people more motivation to tattle on dishonest employers, employees, co-workers, acquaintances and former spouses. But the enhanced incentives -- higher cash rewards to those who blow the whistle on tax cheats -- will go only to those informants who provide specific, useful information. "Evidence and analysis is what we are looking for rather than hearsay and speculation," said Stephen Whitlock, director of the IRS' new Whistleblower Office. "People who come in with hearsay, speculation and a motive tend to be less reliable.
Man, yanked into snow blower, dies of injuries
HUNTER MOUNTAIN - A Greene County man was killed Monday when he was accidentally pulled into a snow blower, state police in Catskill said.
Walter Rion, 63, of Prattsville, a Hunter Mountain Ski Resort employee, was trying to close an overhead garage door at the resort when the accident happened.
Police said Rion's clothes were caught in the moving blades of a 6-foot-wide snow blower, pulling the man into the machine. .
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