The Benefits of American Energy, Today and Tomorrow
Mary Schaper
Posted January 16, 2014
Oil Boom Brings Cash and iPads to School District
USA Today: COTULLA, Texas — In Cindy Ochoa's fourth-grade reading class, a dozen students peer quietly into their iPads, perusing an online version ofEncyclopedia Britannica for a research paper on U.S. states.
"You see how quiet it is?" Ochoa says. "They're in their own worlds."
A few years ago, the iPads would have been unthinkable, an unreachable expense in a dirt-poor school district. Today, all 1,300 students in the Cotulla Independent School District have access to new iPads. Their parents no longer have to spend money on school supplies. They ride around in new buses.
Once one of the poorest districts in Texas, Cotulla is today one of the richest because of the state's oil boom.
Read more: http://usat.ly/1dzv3vz
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About The Author
Mary Schaper is a Digital Communications Manager for the American Petroleum Institute. She previously worked on Capitol Hill for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee as Digital Director and for Senator Lisa Murkowski. Before coming to D.C., she spearheaded digital strategy for Murkowski's successful Senate write-in campaign in 2010. Schaper enjoys traveling and taking in the local culture alongside her husband, their son and loyal springer spaniel.