FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 14, 2011

CONTACT: John Schuster
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
305-995-1126

Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho, Federal Grant Officer Emy Tseng, U.S. Department of Commerce staff, administrators, teachers, students and parents

LINK Computer Training and Distribution

Thursday, January 20, 2011, 4 - 6:30 p.m.

Frederick Douglass Elementary School
314 NW 12th Street
Miami, FL 33136

Over the two-day event, 150 refurbished desktop computers will be distributed to Frederick Douglass Elementary parents through Miami-Dade County Public School’s LINK (Learn Ideas, Navigate Knowledge) program. LINK has worked with the 35 Differentiated Accountability (DA) schools since the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year to provide digital literacy training and outreach campaigns in order to increase the relevance of broadband in people’s everyday lives. Over the lifetime of this two-year federally funded grant, the LINK program will provide up to 6,000 eligible students with a computer for $25 and free broadband Internet service for one year.

For more information, visit http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/