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March 25, 2008
Beckley Register-Herald
Senator talks technology with students, teachers
Bill Billeter
For more than an hour Tuesday morning, a group of students and teachers at Woodrow Wilson High School shared their thoughts on technology and the future of computers in education with Sen. Jay Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, D-W.Va., met with the group to learn more about technology needs in West Virginia's classrooms as he prepares to sponsor the America's Better Classrooms Act, which would provide tax-exempt bonds to schools for construction and repair.
"These are smart kids, and they have interesting futures," Rockefeller said. "I just want to learn what part the Internet plays in that."
Rockefeller also authored the E-Rate program 12 years ago, which has provided more than $91 million to West Virginia's schools and libraries to pay for the cost of wiring to the Internet.
Without the E-Rate program, Woodrow Wilson High School would not have been able to make necessary upgrades to its technology infrastructure, said Mary Foster, technology coordinator at the school.
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