One thing I forgot to mention is the consideration of applications. I don't mean to be pessimistic but the biggest issue would be with the migration of MS Office. An ideal target school would be one who has already begun to use Openoffice.org on their windows machines.
The solution we ended up with at the YMCA was to install Crossover Office with MS Office for those few who just couldn't get to grips with Openoffice. We also have a Windows terminal server at each location running office and a few other applications that are not compatible with wine. Many teachers will have documents prepared in office that just won't render correctly in Openoffice. I spent hours in pain the other day after a document would not render correctly in openoffice in .doc format, thankfully I had a .sxw backup but no matter what if I saved the document as a .doc, closed and reopened it all the image alignment just got screwed up. I can deal with it, but for many it would be a frustration and cause of rejection for the linux envronment. Sascha
