18 Thereafter, one school was randomly selected from the 17 eligible schools (eligibility criteria: senior secondary, coeducational, day school).
Microsoft would also donate software upon request to eligible schools, from kindergarten through high school.
In Wyoming, 12 of 18 eligible schools turned down the money.
"Most people who have children enrolled in eligible schools never seek a transfer," she said.
Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second-largest system, applied for only 13 of its 31 eligible schools.
Only 63 percent of 150,000 eligible schools were participating as of 2009; some fear bureaucratic hassle or can't afford the required matching funds.
Just 665 out of 13,000 eligible schools – 5% of the total - failed to meet the official benchmarks for results or progress, fewer than the 676 that failed to meet the previous standard in 2015.
And the nearly unlimited donations of Microsoft software to eligible schools, they add, would serve to create an even larger market in the future for the company's products because students would be introduced to computing by using Microsoft products, like Windows, Word and Excel.
Virtually all accredited public, nonprofit and proprietary (meaning privately owned and profit-making) postsecondary institutions qualify as eligible schools.
Those criteria would have required eligible schools to show "demonstrated expertise" in some relatively rare fields, including "wastewater operations" and "port security".
Higher parental age (OR=1.02) and household income (OR=1.27), accessibility to public transport (OR=0.42), attending public school (OR=0.36), access to school service (OR=0.45) and contextual and design preconditions for walking (OR=0.81) were associated with PWTS to eligible schools.
