The Nashville Community Consolidated School District #49 Board of Education met last night and unanimously approved the 1 to 1 Program for kindergarten through 8^th grade.  Superintendent Mike Brink made the proposal to the Board and the committee was very pleased with all the work that went into the proposal that was approved.  Brink did say there were a few changes in the recommendations to the proposal that is on the school website.  The district will enter into a 4-year contract with Pearson for digital curriculum, professional development and project management services, as well as enter into a 3-year lease contract with Quality Network Solutions for the Lenovo X131e Thinkpad laptops.  Brink discussed one of the changes, which is to formulate a way to load all the digital textbooks onto the laptops, in the event someone loses internet access at home, the textbooks would still be there for the student to use.  In the older students cases, it may involve loading the books onto a jump drive.  The biggest revision deals with slowing down the rollout to the students in K through 4^th grade.  Brink says that this was the biggest and a very legitimate concern from parents and staff for the young students to immediately send the laptop home every night.  This only affects math in the lower grades, as that is all that would be loaded onto the computer.  So, the kindergarten through 2^nd grade students will use the laptop in class and take worksheets home.  The plan for the 3^rd and 4^th graders is going to be an extra expense to the district, but very minimal.  Pearson will sell the school the physical math textbook for and extra $1.50 over the cost of the digital textbook and the school gets both.  This will be for approximately 110 textbooks and Brink said they had padded some costs, so it should not put anything over budget.  The students will take the textbook home and keep it there until the end of school and they use the digital copy in class.  Eventually, at some point during the year, these younger students will begin to take the laptops home, but not very often.  Just to get them into the flow as they will be taking them home every night as they progress in school.  There will be no change to the 5^th through 8^th graders, as they will be taking the laptops home every night, especially to recharge them.  This will go into effect for the fall.