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"Guilford County Schools will not only resume its middle school tablet program in the fall. It has also extended a partnership with the manufacturer for another year.GCS announced Wednesday that it had reached a tentative agreement with Amplify that extends the contract through the 2017-2018 school year. The contract should be finalized by March 17.The tablets are part of the PACE project, which is funded through at least $30 million in federal grant money. GCS stopped the program in October after problems were reported with thousands of tablets, including damaged screens, damaged cases, broken USB connectors and melted chargers.Amplify said in December it would replace all the tablets with new devices made at a different plant. GCS will issue nearly 20,000 tablets this fall to all 24 middle schools on a staggered schedule.The agreement requires Amplify to pay GCS more than $850,000 for costs incurred after the program's suspension, as well as provide technology consultants for each school for the first 90 days. GCS paid $3.2 million for the tablets that were given out at 18 middle schools last fall."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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