Dollar Amount | Recipient | Program | Purpose |
$5 million | Universities, businesses, and schools in the Delaware Valley region of Pennsylvania | Technology Innovation Challenge grants | To develop a supercomputer network to be used by the consortium’s members. |
$7.3 million | I Can Learn | Technology Innovation Challenge grants | Use technology to teach 8th grade algebra. |
$800,000 | Nicolet Area Technical College, Rhinelander, Wis. | Technology Innovation Challenge grants | To train K-12 teachers how to use the college’s distance-learning equipment. |
$8 million | Iowa Communications Network | Star Schools | Expand the state’s existing fiber-optic network. |
$1.5 million | Hays-Lodge Pole school district, Mont. (Identified as applicant No. 11-2815) | Impact-aid construction | Repair school buildings that pose serious health threats to students.’' |
$1.5 million | Delta Greely school district, Alaska (Identified as applicant No. 36-4403) | Impact-aid construction | Repair school buildings that pose serious health threats to students.’' |
$350,000 | Yonkers, N.Y. public schools. | Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, national programs | Expand school safety and drug prevention in schools with severe drug and violence problems.’' |
$1 million | Advanced Technical Center, Mexico, Mo. | Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education | Technical education in community colleges and technical schools. |
$3 million | Empire State College within the State University of New York | Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education | Offer distance learning. |
$500,000 | Early Interventions for Children and Reading Problems, Washington | Fund for the Improvement of Education | Enhance teacher training in reading in nine elementary schools. |
$8 million | Iowa education department | Fund for the Improvement of Education | For a demonstration of public school facilities repair and construction.’' |
$350,000 | White Plains, N.Y., city school district. | Fund for the Improvement of Education | Expand an unspecified after-school program. |
$55,000 | St. Stephen Life Center, Louisville, Ky. | Fund for the Improvement of Education | After-school program for at-risk students. |
$1 million | Unspecified state education agency. In accompanying report language, the state is identified as Utah. | Fund for the Improvement of Education | To pay for an appraisal of land belonging to the state’s school trust that was claimed by the federal government as part of a national monument. |
SOURCE: P.L. 105-78