Florida Florida is one of the nation's leaders in school technology, and financial resources are a major reason why. Join our on-line Town Meeting to discuss what role technology should play in education reform.
Every school has a videodisc player, purchased at state expense.
Florida has emphasized the importance of teacher training in technology by requiring districts to spend 30 percent of their state technology dollars for that purpose. We have a large institutional base of technology in schools, and we've had a variety of initiatives over the years that have pointed teaching and schools into the future. Conceived in the early 1980s as a network to link schools for administrative purposes, FIRN has since added other functions. FIRN also features a toll-free telephone hot line available seven days a week and supports 10 technicians around the state to help educators make use of its services. Public school teachers' reports on the availability of computers to students in mathematics classes.