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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