HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC Radio) - The public-private Partnership for Connecticut has approved spending up to $24 million for 60,000 laptop computers for high school students in the state's most at-need school districts.
Officials hope the laptops will help students with distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Dell laptops, costing nearly $400 each, are expected to start arriving in Connecticut in late April or early May, officials said on a conference call Tuesday morning.
Students in the state's 33 so-called Alliance school districts will be first in line. Hartford is expected to receive nearly 4,900 laptops.
The computers will remain the property of the school districts.




