National Lieutenant Governors Association Sponsors Resolution for Children's Low-Cost Laptops

July 25, 2008

The National Lieutenant Governors Association unanimously passed a resolution urging the federal government and the U.S. Department of Education to ensure that every American schoolchild has access to his or her own laptop computer.

"We are in the eighth year of a new century and I find it inexcusable that our most valuable asset, our children, do not have all the tools they need to compete in the global economy," Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll said. "I commend Lt. Governor Pat Quinn for sponsoring what I feel is the most important resolution the NLGA has considered this year."

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