Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department – it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres, 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky; the state’s public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989, primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts, and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform.
