Classrooms For The Future Grant
The Classroom for the Future state program provided districts with hundreds of thousands of extra state funding to buy laptop computers for each core curriculum high school class (English, Science, History, Mathematics) and paid for teacher training to optimize the computers' use. The program was funded from 2006 to 2009. Clearfield Area School District was denied funding by the Pennsylvania Department of Education in 2006-07. In 2007-08, the district was again, denied funding. For the 2008-09 school year the district received $148,208. Of the 501 public school districts in Pennsylvania, 447 of them received Classrooms for the Future grant awards.
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