Classrooms for the Future is about recognizing and embracing the need for high school reform, enabling teachers to use technology as an effective tool for educating students, and preparing students to enter and successfully compete in the ever-expanding high-tech global marketplace.

This initiative will transform the way high school teachers teach and how students learn by providing $90 million to equip these schools' English, math, science and social studies classrooms with enhanced technology, laptop computers and other state-of-the art resources. Just as importantly, an additional $6 million in state and federal funds will be used to provide teachers and school leaders extensive training on how to best harness the power of technology to increase student achievement and ensure students are ready for college and the high-tech global job market. All told, Classrooms for the Future will provide funds over the next three years so all high schools in Pennsylvania may participate in this initiative.

If Pennsylvania is to adequately prepare our students for this new job market, our school's settings must be transformed to reflect this new landscape and students must achieve at higher levels.  Classrooms for the Future will do that.

Of the $90 million budgeted for this initiative state wide in 2007-2008, The Jefferson-Morgan School District recieved$81,016.00 to fund the year one of the project. These funds will equip three high school mathematics classrooms for the 2007-2008 school year with student laptop computers, staff laptop computers, interactive whiteboards, multimedia projectors, web cameras, digital video camera, digital still cameras, wireless access points, multifunction printers, and productivity software to imerse our students in a 21st Century working environment.