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January 27, 2015 1 min read
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In addition, roughly 90 percent of districts said they expected their 2014-15 tech budgets for hardware, software, teacher training, and technical support to stay the same or rise, according to the research. That’s a slight increase from the previous year in most of those categories.

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Source: Gallup

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A version of this article appeared in the January 29, 2015 edition of Education Week as Happiness in the Classroom

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