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Microsoft has announced that Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest public school system in the US, will offer 100,000 Windows 8 devices to students and staff by August 2015



From Neowin:
Microsoft has signed up a huge new education-based customer that plans to order and use a ton of Windows 8 devices. In a post on the company's official blog, Microsoft announced that Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest public school system in the US, will offer 100,000 Windows 8 devices to students and staff members by August 2015.

The blog states that the roll out will begin this spring when 13,000 of the school systems elementary school students will get laptops, and 15,000 7th grade civics students and 9th grade world history students will be able to use Windows 8 devices. The blog did not state the specific hardware products the students will be using.
  Microsoft: 100,000 Windows 8 devices to be used by Miami's public school system