April 18, 2024

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| 6/25/2014

"If we get this, it’ll be a leap forward."

-- Paul Soares, Duval County Public Schools' operations chief.

The Duval County School Board is exploring a plan to ask voters to approve $100 million to $150 million in general revenue bonds for technology over the next two years. The bonds would pay to put a laptop or computer — with high-speed Internet access — in every student’s hands, or at least one in every two students’ hands to share. The bond also might pay for building improvements and other capital projects.

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