South Mississippi School Districts Receive Grants for Technology Programs
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By Melissa M. Scallan, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 14--PASCAGOULA -- Sixteen school districts in South Mississippi were awarded grants today from Chevron totalling nearly $3 million.   The grants were awarded at a ceremony at Pascagoula High School.
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Feb. 4  25 years ago: 1982  Passage of a bill to merge Shelby State Community College and State Technical Institute at Memphis is virtually assured in the Senate and is supported by two-thirds of the House members from Shelby County.
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By Jan Falstad, Billings Gazette, Mont.  Dec. 13--MSU-B TO RECEIVE TRAINING GRANT: The College of Technology at  Montana State University-Billings is receiving a $1.9 million grant to train  students to work in the energy industry.   The grant is from the U.S.
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By Melissa M. Scallan, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 16--LONG BEACH -- The city of Long Beach is getting a $1.2-million federal grant to improve its hurricane-damaged water system, officials announced Friday.   The money is coming from the U.S.
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By Greg Gelpi< Staff Writer  More computers are coming to your child's classroom.  And those new computers should narrow the technology gap that exists from school to school in Richmond County.  Some schools have two or three students sharing a computer, others as  many as 12.
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Microsoft Corp  unveiled a new  initiative on Monday that will give college and high school  students around the world free access to technology tools used  to develop and design software.
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R&amp;D help, seed funding Reaction to the Budget from technology and business organisations has been largely positive although inadequate funding for IT in schools is a concern.â¦
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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The transfer of technological innovations from the campus to the capitalist marketplace has been a financial windfall for many schools.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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By ADRIA HAIRSTONBY ADRIA HAIRSTON  Students at General Greene Elementary witnessed technology in action at the school's annual technology fair May 25.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.
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The Massachusetts office of Economic Development is giving out $76 million in grants to 21 development projects, including $10 million to Columbus Center, a long-delayed hotel, residential, and retail project that is to straddle the Massachusetts Turnpike between the Back Bay and South End.
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A $199,905 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development will serve economically and educationally disadvantaged adults who lack the technology skills needed to be successful in the workplace.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--The Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library will get nine new computers this year, thanks to a $10,500 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Microsoft will spend $235.5 million in schools in developing countries over the next five years, part of a plan to increase the number of people trained on its software.
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By Todd Davis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 24--JUSTIN -- Talk about incentive.   Soon-to-be eighth-graders attending the summer TechnoCamp in the Northwest school district did more than learn how to operate computers this year.