February 1st, 2012 
Admin Empire High School in Vail, located on the edge of Tucson, is the very first in the Arizona schools to be all-electronic. Instead of textbooks, the 350 students use wireless, Apple laptop computers to research, organize their data, write and graph assignments, and produce class presentations.
The Arizona schools Empire High is a new school with a blank slate. Arizona schools officials could hire new teachers committed to technology-based teaching and buy computers instead of textbooks. The Arizona schools officials wanted to move teachers away from habitual teaching from textbooks, cover-to-cover, and gave region students the option to attend Empire or an additional school.
Having researched schools in other states prior to the all-electronic choice, Arizona schools officials found students who had been clearly more engaged in their studies and unusually enthusiastic about school. 1 reason was that they took a far more active component in the lesson process, rather than everything being “fed” to them. An additional benefit to laptops over textbooks is that groundbreaking information takes five to six years to get into textbooks, especially in the science fields. Of the couple of all-electronic schools across the nation, many are performing well from the perspective of both the students and the educators. The Arizona schools officials clearly felt they could enhance their students’ educational experience with technology over textbooks.