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WebMink writes "With an impending deadline for America's schools to satisfy new federal reporting requirements on academic achievement, a new alliance of state educators is creating a system of open source software to help schools gather and submit the data that the rules require. To get the whole thing started, the Gates Foundation and Carnegie are funding two $75,000 awards for the open source developers who create the in-school software. The winners could also become the linchpins of a new industry in academic software."http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Gates+and+Others+Offer+%24150k+For+Ope n+Source+School+Software%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F PW3TyO)http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F12%2F09%2F23%2F0218203%2Fgates-and-others-offer-150k-for-open-source-school-software%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfa cebook)http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/09/23/0218203/gates-and-others-offer-150k-for-open-source-school-software?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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