NEWSTechnology Grants awarded to 53 school districts |
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| Technology grants have been awarded by the State Board of Education to 53 school districts to make technology improvements associated with new or recently completed renovation projects. The districts will share in nearly $5 million allocated to Illinois through the technology portion of the federal School Renovation, IDEA and Technology Grant Program. Districts will be notified of the final amount of their awards in the next few days. Grants must be used for technology improvements in conjunction with renovation projects that are current or have been completed within the past year. Allowable technology expenditures include wiring; acquiring hardware and software; costs associated with connectivity linkages and resources; and costs associated with microwave, fiber optics cable and satellite-transmission equipment. More than 330 proposals, requesting about $60 million, were submitted in response to the request for proposals. External evaluators, as well as agency technology staff, reviewed the proposals and selected recipients based on the quality of the proposals with weighting factors applied for low-wealth districts and those with fewest computers in classrooms. Following is the list of districts awarded federal Technology Grants by the State Board of Education:
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