Schools
District 64 to Test Chromebooks in Classrooms
The district will spend $189,630 on the machines, the Journal & Topics reports.
Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 is spending $189,630 on new Chromebooks, the Journal & Topics reports.
The school board voted this week to purchase 675 of the laptops to be tested out next school year, the newspaper reports. Each school will get 2-3 classroom sets of the Google Chrome browser-based machines. If they are proven to be a good resource in schools, the district may consider purchasing one for each student in grades 3-8.
Maine Township High School District 207 introduced Chomebooks in classrooms this year.
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