| Grant will provide free Internet to all Piedmont students |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Piedmont’s city school system has received a federal grant that would make free Internet access available to every public school student by the end of this summer. The grant, funded by the federal program known as E-rate, would put Internet access in every Piedmont home with school-age children. Piedmont took a sudden leap toward the Internet age last year, when the school system provided Apple MacBook laptops for every student in the school system. The move was funded by a mixture of local money and grants. Before the MacBooks were distributed, school officials say, many in this city of 4,900 didn’t have computers at home. Sixty-five percent of the 1,150 students in the Piedmont district — which serves the city and a large swath of rural Calhoun and Cleburne counties — are on free or reduced-price lunch, indicative of a higher-than-average level of poverty. |
| Source: The Anniston Times (AL-USA) | Published: March 13th, 2011 |
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