Tuesday, September 30, 1997
Region 14 gets $1,387,434
By JONATHAN KRYDER Staff Writer
The Texas Education Agency on Monday awarded $1,387,434 to
the Region 14 Education Service Center to upgrade technology at
10 area schools.
The money is part of $15.5 million in Technology Integration
in Education grants distributed among 19 school districts and
educational cooperatives across the state.
The education service center will work with Texas State Technical
College and school administrators to provide school access to
the Internet at Colorado City, Snyder, Sweetwater, Merkel, Wylie,
Breckenridge, Clyde, Eastland, Comanche and Brownwood.
The funds will go toward installing communication lines for
Internet access and training of staff at each school.
"These schools didn't have this kind of money in their
funds," said Region 14 Executive Director Terry Harlow. "This
will give them the full implementation they want to achieve."
Technology Integration in Education was created to help implement
the national long-range technology plan called Getting America's
Students Ready for the 21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy
Challenge.
Priority was given to rural schools lacking technology and
having sizable percentages of economically disadvantaged students.
The groundwork installed through these grants will pave the
way for other informational opportunities at rural schools, like
two-way interactive video, Harlow said.
"That's the direction we're going, but that'll be another
grant and another day," he said. "Right now, our initial
thing is Internet access."
He said Internet access "will make a great tool in the
classroom."
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