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Bill Brannick, technology director in the archdiocesan Catholic education office, said the Chromebooks are being handed out to representatives from 16 elementary schools and Little Flower High School for Girls in Hunting Park.
"They were selected from a request by the principals identifying students that were either economically disadvantaged or ones that the school did not have enough devices to pass out to the students as we went to online learning,” Brannick said.
“Schools will take them back to their school,” Brannick continued. “They are going to make sure that they have them documented there.
“And then they’ll be in contact with their parents to be able to set up distribution locally to them. But given the time that we’re in, we want to make sure that we can get them into the hands of the students who need them as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
Brannick said those families that do not have internet access will be directed by school officials to a low-cost provider.
He said, when the academic year ends in June, students will be expected to return the Chromebooks so that they can be used in the fall.
The Chromebooks were purchased with a $170,000 grant from the Philadelphia School Partnership.