by the Sterling, IL Daily Gazette
The high school’s science department budget dropped 41 percent, from $11,900 to $7,000. That led science teacher Julie Gonzalez to resort to alternate methods to fulfill what she sees as classroom necessities. Gonzalez discovered an online website called Donorschoose.org that allows anyone to donate to public schools. She wanted to provide her incoming freshmen Accelerated Biology students with mini laptops to help complete assignments and papers. “These mini laptops will give students that don’t have computers at home the opportunity to type papers when needed,” she wrote in her online proposal, the only one from Whiteside County on the site. She is asking for about $740 to cover the cost of the computers, which also will arm her students with the skills they need to successfully complete assignments in college.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/10/09/5057960.htm
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