A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 23, 2000
Glickman Awards $18.7 Million To Boost
Technology In Rural Education, Medicine
RAISIN CITY, Calif.— Continuing the Clin
ton Administration’s efforts to help rural Amer
ica, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
recently announced $18.7 million in grants to
promote the use of technology in education and
medicine.
“Distance learning and telemedicine are the
wave of the future for rural America,” Glickman
said. “Using new technology students and fami
lies can participate in classes not previously
available to them, and people who live in rural
areas can access health care without driving
long distances.”
Glickman made the announcement at the
Raisin City Elementary School in Raisin City,
Calif., near the Community Medical Centers of
Fresno County, which received a $206,000 grant
to establish a telecommunications network. This
network will provide rural residents includ
ing medically under-served farmworkers in
the surrounding area with round-the-clock
access to medical care. The project includes
equipping a mobile medical van with telemedi
cine equipment to reach out to and visit farm
workers and other rural residents who would
likely not otherwise receive medical care.
The awards also include a $350,000 grant to
establish distance-learning classrooms at three
high schools in the Union (Miss.) Public School
District. The new facilities will give students in
small, isolated communities there access to
upper division instruction through a regional co
operative distance-learning network.
Among the other awards is a $277,000 grant
to create distance-learning hubs in Clay Center,
Doniphan and Superior, Neb. A $325,000 grant
was awarded to Copenhagen (N.Y.) Central
School for distance-learning technology to up
grade agricultural science programs in sparsely
populated rural areas near the St. Lawrence
River.
The 84 grants announced today will include
$11.3 million for 49 distance learning projects
encompassing over 300 educational facilities,
which will enable students in rural school dis
tricts to participate in classes taught by instruc
tors at distant locations, or to access information
from libraries and other learning centers located
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