Classrooms for the Future Grant Program Arrives

Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that students at the John Harris and William Penn campuses of Harrisburg High School will now benefit from a new program that is transforming their classrooms from the traditional textbook, chalk, and blackboard experience to one that utilizes computers, the Internet, and enhanced technology.

Reed said the Harrisburg High School campuses are two of the first 358 schools across Pennsylvania that are creating Classrooms for the Future http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=475&&level=1&css=L1&mode=2 in order to increase student achievement and success by providing state-of-the-art equipment and enhanced teacher development.

Classrooms for the Future is an initiative implemented by Governor Edward G. Rendell which is designed to put a laptop computer on every high school English, Math, Science and Social Studies desk and to provide teachers with a multimedia workstation and intensive training to enhance education. The Harrisburg School District applied for and received a $500,000.00 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) in order to implement this program.

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