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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
FOR MORE INFORMATION: |
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July 27, 2000 |
217/782‑4648 or 312/814-3490 |
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund Grant Recipients Selected
Ninety-two Illinois school districts have been selected to receive Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF) Grants for FY2001, the fourth year of the program.
"The TLCF grants help local schools accelerate their efforts to ensure that today's students are technologically literate," State Superintendent Glenn W. McGee explained. "These federal funds add to our ability to work with schools in integrating technology throughout the curriculum ‑such efforts will transform teaching and learning to increase student achievement."
The TLCF is specifically designed to help districts with the highest numbers of children in poverty and, therefore, the greatest need. The goals of TLCF are to give all teachers training and support to help their students learn through computers and the Internet, provide up-to-date computers in their classrooms, connect all classrooms to the Internet, and ensure that effective and engaged learning will be an integral part of every school's curriculum.
School districts are selected to receive TLCF funds through a competitive process. Districts could submit applications for no more than two of the three project categories. The categories were as follows: 1) a single district application that includes community partners for a local technology project, 2) a regional application that involves three or more other public school districts in an area served by a Learning Technology Hub for a technology project, and 3) a statewide application that includes participation with public school districts in at least three Learning Technology Hub areas for a technology project.
In this phase of the program, school districts submitted 467 TLCF proposals. Field reviewers evaluated the proposals and recommended funding for districts in each of the seven Learning Technology Hubs in Illinois. Funds are then distributed based on a formula that takes into account the number of school districts, K‑12 students, and low‑income children in the Hub area.
State Board staff will assist these districts with the implementation of their technology projects.
The following is a list of school districts selected to receive Technology Literacy Challenge Fund Grants for FY01:
Single district awards by county:
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Adams |
Quincy School District #172 |
$180,000.00 |
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Christian |
Taylorville Community Unit School District #3 |
$135,000.00 |
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Clay |
Clay City Community Unit District #10 |
$45,000.00 |
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Clinton |
Germantown School District #60 |
$45,000.00 |
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Cook |
Orland School District #135 |
$180,000.00 |
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Cook |
Golf School District #67 |
$45,000.00 |
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Cook |
Rich Township High School District #227 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Oak Park Elementary District #97 |
$180,000.00 |
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Cook |
Lincoln Elementary School District #15 |
$45,000.00 |
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Cook |
Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview District #89 |
$180,000.00 |
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Cook |
Bloom Township High School District #206 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Prairie-Hills Elementary School District #144 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Arbor Park School District #145 |
$90,000.00 |
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Cook |
Berwyn North School District #98 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Chicago Heights School District #170 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Dolton School District #148 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Sunnybrook School District #171 |
$90,000.00 |
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Cook |
Oak Park River Forest High School District #200 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Matteson School District #162 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
East Maine School District #63 |
$135,000.00 |
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Cook |
Chicago Public Schools |
$4,174,790.00 |
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(39 School-based technology integration projects) |
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Crawford |
Hutsonville Community Unit School District #1 |
$45,000.00 |
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Cumberland |
Cumberland Unit District #77 |
$90,000.00 |
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DeKalb |
Genoa-Kingston Unit School District #424 |
$90,000.00 |
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DeKalb |
DeKalb Community Unit School District #428 |
$180,000.00 |
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DuPage |
Downers Grove Grade School District #58 |
$180,000.00 |
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DuPage |
School District #45, Villa Park |
$45,000.00 |
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Franklin |
Sesser-Valier District #196 |
$45,000.00 |
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Fulton |
Avon Community Unit School District #176 |
$45,000.00 |
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Greene |
Carrollton Community Unit School District #1 |
$45,000.00 |
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Henry |
Cambridge Community Unit School District #227 |
$45,000.00 |
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Henry |
Kewanee Community Unit School District #229 |
$90,000.00 |
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Henry |
Galva Community Unit School District #224 |
$45,000.00 |
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Iroquois |
Iroquois County Unit School District #9 |
$90,000.00 |
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Kane |
Geneva Community Unit School District #304 |
$180,000.00 |
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Kane |
School District #U-46, Elgin |
$225,000.00 |
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Kane |
Community Unit School District #300 |
$225,000.00 |
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Kane |
West Aurora School District #129 |
$225,000.00 |
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Kankakee |
Bradley School District #61 |
$90,000.00 |
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Kankakee |
Bourbonnais Elementary School District #53 |
$135,000.00 |
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Kankakee |
Manteno Community Unit School District #5 |
$90,000.00 |
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Kankakee |
Kankakee School District #111 |
$180,000.00 |
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Kendall |
Yorkville Community Unit School District #115 |
$135,000.00 |
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LaSalle |
Grand Ridge Community District #95 |
$45,000.00 |
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LaSalle |
Ottawa Elementary District #141 |
$135,000.00 |
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Macon |
Mount Zion Community Unit District #3 |
$135,000.00 |
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Macon |
Argenta-Oreana Unit School District # 1 |
$90,000.00 |
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Macon |
Decatur School District #61 |
$225,000.00 |
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Macoupin |
Carlinville Unit School District #1 |
$90,000.00 |
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Marshall |
Henry-Senachwine Unit School District #5 |
$45,000.00 |
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McHenry |
Harvard Community Unit School District #50 |
$135,000.00 |
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McHenry |
Woodstock Unit School District #200 |
$180,000.00 |
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McHenry |
McHenry Community School District # 15 |
$180,000.00 |
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McLean |
Tri-Valley Community Unit District #3 |
$45,000.00 |
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Montgomery |
Litchfield Community Unit School district # 12 |
$90,000.00 |
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Montgomery |
Hillsboro Community Unit School District #3 |
$135,000.00 |
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Ogle |
Rochelle Township High School District #212 |
$45,000.00 |
Total $15,900.000.00
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