In the vanguard for Linux in K12: of all places, INDIANA...

[Ed Lawson]

What makes this different from most stores about FOSS in schools is that
the program was developed at the state level and promoted at the state
level in order to address a common need for
functional/inexpensive computer access in K12 schools. Very
different from the situation in which a few early adoptors have to
prove the validity if not even the acceptability of various FOSS
solutions at the local level with essentially no support from state
authorities and into the teeth of assumptions at all levels of the
that presume a different approach.  

In other words, in Indiana you have leadership at the state level
providing a blessing for and a program designed to use FOSS in the K12
setting.  So far in NH we have a few local people doing very neat
things, but I suspect it is a grind to get FOSS utilized heavily since
it has to be done separately in each SAU or school district because
there is no state umbrella to provide cover for something new and
different.

Ed Lawson