Future of Academic Library Site Template

I'm working on creating a training site for my company and during the course of discovery stumbled across the "Academic Library" site template which, based upon some research, would be a perfect fit for my requirements.  The problem is It's
not selectable when creating a new site and from what I'm seeing may be a dead feature.
Is anyone able to confirm this?  I've used the
SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) in a 2010 environment but it's not updated for 2013 and I really don't want to go that route if Microsoft is planning on including this functionality in the near future.
Thanks,
Kevin

Microsoft dropped the SharePoint for Education feature, so you'll still need to look at 3rd parties to (such as the SLK -- which my first guess would work with just a recompile) implement education functionality.
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