Clayton County’s school board has finalized a plan to trim about $12 million from next year’s budget, but a controversial new laptop program remains.
As WABE previously reported, OddysseyWare is set up as an alternative form of instruction for Clayton’s hardest-to-teach middle and high school students.
Each kid gets a laptop and they’re expected to go home and complete online courses. Middle school students are required to spend four hours a day with teachers, but high school students have no such requirement.
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