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, Math) and paid for teacher training to optimize the computers use. The program was funded from 2006-2009. Delaware Valley School District's application was denied by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, in 2006-07. in 2007-08, Delaware Valley High School received 548,545. The school received another $99,595 in 2008-09 for a total funding of $648,140. The highest funding state wide was awarded to Philadelphia City School District in Philadelphia County - $9,409,073. In 2010, Classrooms for the Future funding was curtailed statewide due to a massive state financial crisis.
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