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State high schools get $20M in tech funding

By Karen Roebuck

1 Min Read • Sept. 21, 2006 | 20 years Ago

Gov. Ed Rendell awarded $20 million Wednesday to 103 Pennsylvania high schools for technology.

"We cannot prepare the 'technology generation' to be the innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs of the 21st century just using chalk and blackboards," he said, while announcing the grants at Wilkinsburg High School.

Another $6 million in state and federal money will be used for teacher and administrator training.

The money was part of Rendell's program, "Classrooms for the Future," to put laptop computers on every high school desk in English, math, science and social studies classrooms.

The program will give $200 million during the next three years and include every high school.

"The schools selected for the first year of Classrooms for the Future will serve as a model to the hundreds of schools we intend to fund through this program over the next three years," the governor said.

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