K-12 education - moving to web?

How far behind mainstream computer usage is the K-12 education market in the US?  This has always been a frustration for me - even back when I was developing educational CD-Roms 15 years ago.  More recently, I've also blogged on the subject.  Enough gloomy thoughts though.

It's better to phrase the question more positively: how close is the K-12 education market to catching up to mainstream web usage?

That is a good enough question that an SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) committee of which I'm a member was formed to look at the issue.  The Transformation to Web-Based Working Group has gone out and interviewed key leaders at 7 pace setter K-12 districts around the country to find out how ready they are to become web centric in their computing. 

The results of the committee's work will be shared to other SIIA members in a webinar tomorrow afternoon.  If you are an SIIA member, please consider signing up here.