BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — To comply with a Oregon Department of Education mandate to produce computer-literate students by eighth grade, educators in the Baker School District are wheeling in computers and smart boards in an effort to jump-start technological proficiency.
The computers will literally be on wheels, taken to classrooms that need them.
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