LA GRANDE — Training & Employment Consortium, La Grande, continues to offer free computer classes, with online interactive Word and Excel courses planned in March and April.

Sixty-eight percent of kids who say their schools offer computer science courses say they want to learn more about the topic, compared with 49 percent in schools that don’t offer the classes.

Big-name companies like Delta Airlines, UPS, and Starbucks are clamoring for expanding computer science education at the K-12 level. But according to a recent report from the nonprofit Code.org ...