An added benefit, said Kolb, is that allowing students to bring in devices is often a more affordable option to schools than providing one for each student.
The city has also tried to add healthier options to school lunch menus, enacted strict rules on the calorie and sugar content of snacks and drinks in school vending machines, and even put limits on bake sales, a move that caused some grumbling.
The microblogging exec is lobbying Congress to add vegetarian options to school lunches, and sent a letter to Rep. George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee to support the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, which would add a vegetarian friendly option to children's school lunches.
"We are exploring many opportunities," said the company's founder and chief executive, Lance Mortensen, "including -- but not limited to -- partnerships, the outright sale of the network, joint ventures and alternative options to schools that would allow them to keep the labs, which means, obviously, for pay".
Aaron Kupchik, a sociologist at the University of Delaware, has said having police officers assigned to schools is not best option to prevent school violence.
Mr. Bush has proposed that economically disadvantaged students who are supposed to be helped under the federal Title 1 program be given a voucher option to switch schools if schools have failing programs that they cannot reverse in three years.
Kansas did not ban the teaching of evolution, leaving that option to local school districts.
The decision did not prohibit the teaching of evolution, but left the option to local school districts.
We think the holistic approach is the only option to improving school quality.
This month, a judge ruled that the city should not distribute final high school admission decisions because it did not give students the option to choose schools that it proposed to close.
