Seven hundred students in the School District of Philadelphia will enter an innovative and groundbreaking learning environment when the doors of a $46 million, jointly developed demonstration school open in 2006. With this announcement today, the School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft Corp. intend to work together on the planning, design, development, construction and completion of a new high school that will embed technology from the ground up into the school's educational and operational structure. The estimated $46 million in project costs will be funded by the district's capital program.
"To ensure that our children are receiving the best education possible, we must continually ask ourselves how we can do this better," said James E. Nevels School District of Philadelphia School Reform Chair. "By working with an innovator such as Microsoft and bringing in its expertise to manage this project, we intend to make real our shared vision for the school of the future."
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