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 to 2009. The funding included mandated teacher training on the effective use of the computers and white boards to improve instruction. The Exeter Township School District did not apply to participate in 2006-07. In 2007-08, the Exeter Township Senior High School was denied funding by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The Exeter Township Senior High School received $188,223 in 2008-09. In Berks County the highest award was given to Reading School District which received $1,294,497. The highest funding statewide was awarded to Philadelphia City School District in Philadelphia County - $9,409,073. In 2010, Classrooms for the Future funding program was curtailed by Governor Edward G. Rendell due to a massive state government financial crisis.
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