BENNINGTON — The Bennington School District Board voted unanimously Monday to approve the purchase of $100,000 worth of new computer technology for the three elementary schools.
The majority of the money, all of which the district has in its budget, will go toward purchasing new laptop computers for the fifth-grade students and teachers to use in the classroom.
The board also decided to purchase new interactive white boards for all of the kindergarten, first-, and second-grade classrooms.
A document prepared by school administrators and the board states the importance of the new technology — citing that 80 percent of schools in the country have implemented personal computers for its students report one third of those students have shown "significant academic improvement."
The document also expresses a desire to eventually purchase personal laptops in the fourth-grade and third-grade classrooms, as well as interactive white boards for every classroom in the three schools.
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