School In-plants Achieve Straight-A Performance

"This is Hawaii," he says. "We've got people who don't even have electricity, let alone laptop computers. How are you going to reach the kids if they don't have electricity or a computer?"

For these students, he says, paper is still the only way to go.

Preparing the Next Generation

Almost 22 percent of school district in-plants also function as classrooms, with students often running live jobs. This has been a boon for districts like Lufkin Independent, in Lufkin, Texas, which started up its in-plant just two years ago. Students not only receive instruction on the full range of equipment, from CTP to offset and bindery, they also produce the district's stationery, calendars, handbooks and even teachers' manuals.