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Updated 10/01/2008 04:09 PM

City Public Schools Receive New Laptops

By: NY1 News

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More public school students will soon have access to laptop computers.

Several non-profit groups are donating XO laptops for use in elementary schools as part of the One Laptop Per Child program.

The eco-friendly, low-cost machines were originally designed for children in third-world countries.

Now the $200 computers are being tested at schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Officials say curriculum is being developed to help teachers use the laptops.