{"id":12371,"date":"2012-10-25T07:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2012-10-25T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:53:44","slug":"how-idahos-180-million-education-technology-contract-impacts-hps-multibillion-dollar-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/25\/how-idahos-180-million-education-technology-contract-impacts-hps-multibillion-dollar-bottom-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How Idaho\u2019s $180 Million Education Technology Contract Impacts HP\u2019s Multibillion-Dollar Bottom Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12385\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna and Gov. Butch Otter at Tuesday's announcement.  Meridian School Superintendent Linda Clark and Hewlett-Packard Vice President Von Hansen are also pictured.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/HP-Announcement.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12385\" title=\"Hewlett-Packard announcement\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/HP-Announcement-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/HP-Announcement-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/HP-Announcement.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Katherine Jones \/ Idaho Statesman<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna and Gov. Butch Otter at Tuesday&#39;s announcement. Meridian School Superintendent Linda Clark and Hewlett-Packard Vice President Von Hansen are also pictured.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idaho\u2019s <a title=\"Props 1, 2, And 3: Voter\u2019s Guide To Idaho\u2019s Controversial Education Laws\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/17\/props-1-2-and-3-voters-guide-to-idahos-controversial-education-laws\/\">Students Come First<\/a> laws are controversial for a lot of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>There are the limits the laws impose on teachers\u2019 unions, and the potential effects on teachers\u2019 job security.<\/p>\n<p>Now there\u2019s something more to consider: local tech jobs.\u00a0 This week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestatepublicradio.org\/post\/idaho-announces-180-million-education-tech-contract-hewlett-packard\" target=\"_blank\">Hewlett-Packard won a $180 million contract<\/a> to provide computers, maintenance and technical support to every high school student and teacher in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>To hear <em>StateImpact<\/em>&#8216;s story about what this agreement means for HP, click on the audio player below.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho\u2019s Students Come First laws are controversial for a lot of reasons. There are the limits the laws impose on teachers\u2019 unions, and the potential effects on teachers\u2019 job security. Now there\u2019s something more to consider: local tech jobs.\u00a0 This week Hewlett-Packard won a $180 million contract to provide computers, maintenance and technical support to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":12385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[206],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}