Wednesday, September 24, 2014
AUSTINTOWN
Austintown schools continue to work on two new additions to the district — tablet computers for students in grades six through 12 and a filling station for 14 buses that run on propane.
Superintendent Vincent Colaluca said, “I don’t believe” the filling station has been installed yet, but “right now [the district] is sending transport trucks over to fill up at Youngstown Propane.”
The district is still waiting for the arrival of the 3,000 tablets the school board purchased for $1.1 million, including software and carts to hold them. Colaluca said this week the teaching staff will work on 200 tablets in preparation for using them in class with students.
“We want to get them in our kids’ hands in the next month and get our kids used to them,” Colaluca said.
Read more about the devices in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.