Grant provides laptops to improve Nacogdoches schools test scores

Nacogdoches, TX — Nacogdoches ISD is bringing students into the new age. Some students from elementary to high school will soon have laptop computers as a learning tool.

Thanks to a school improvement grant from the Texas Education Agency, Thomas J. Rusk Elementary will be able to equip every fourth and fifth grader with a laptop as soon as next semester.

"Because we did not meet AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress), we get extra funds and through TEA you can request different strategies," said TJR Principal Malinda Lindsey.

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