Philanthropy

The International Business Machines Corporation has awarded $2 million to the Broward County, Fla., schools--the seventh grant in IBM's $25 million "Reinventing Education" initiative.

Launched last fall by the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer company, the project encourages districts and states to use technology to support systemwide school reforms. (See Education Week, Sept. 21, 1994.)

The Florida district will use the gift to create an integrated data system to keep track of student records, budgets, and other information. IBM will also help Broward officials use technologies such as "data mining" to analyze large amounts of database...