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E. Aurora schools will update technology with grant

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Annette Johnson, president of the East Aurora District 131 school board, discusses the laptops the district will buy for each student in its magnet academy using a $660,000 grant from the Dunham Fund. MacBook Pros will be given to seventh- and eighth-grade students, while high schoolers will be given tablet-style laptops.

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Mark Truemper, a member of the Dunham Fund's board of directors, gives a $660,000 grant Tuesday to East Aurora District 131 so each of 750 students at the district's Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy can receive a personal laptop next year.

Marie Wilson | Staff Photographer

East Aurora District 131 Superintendent Jerome Roberts said Tuesday providing a laptop for each student in the district's Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy not only will help those students, but also their families and the city of Aurora as a whole.

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Personal laptops will serve as educational tools next year for 750 students in East Aurora District 131's Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy, allowing them to enhance their learning in science, technology, engineering and math, school officials said Tuesday. "When you put technology into students' hands, they are going to excel, they are going to do great," said Annette Johnson, school board president. "Unfortunately, in District 131, many of our students can't afford that technology."

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