Anchorage schools to use stimulus funds for technology upgrades and pilot programs

June 24, 2009
District also plans to begin anti-dropout effort

From The Anchorage Daily News: The Anchorage (Alaska) district is treating federal stimulus money as a windfall, using most of it to pay for long-dreamed-of upgrades and to experiment with pilot programs aimed at long-standing problems. Federal stimulus funds will be used to pay $21 million for technology upgrades -- mostly wireless Internet; $7 million for building projects; $4 million for new books and other learning materials; and $19 million for the staffing, development and outfitting of anti-dropout programs over the next two years.

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