USWired (Albany, NY, www.uswired4ed.net) has a corporate history that includes nearly a decade in not-for-profit work training teachers on technology, assisting with Net Day planning and exploring ed tech policy. That history has given this new for-profit entity open doors to policy makers such as governors and union leaders, and those leaders are giving the go ahead for state-wide roll outs of this company's technology offerings.
USWired, formerly the not for profit organization New York Wired, is, not surprisingly, launching in New York and is likely to subsequently