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Local schools tapped for ACCESS programs

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Hartselle and Falkville high schools are among the sites selected to participate in a program designed to link classrooms across the state.

Both schools are part of the latest phase of the state’s ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide) program. The program allows students to participate in classes throughout via videoconferencing and web-based instruction. It also allows for Hartselle and Falkville students to take electives and advanced placement courses that aren’t offered at their schools.

In just two short years, we will have established 21st century ACCESS sites in 170 out of approximately 400 high schools, said Dr. Melinda Maddox, Director of Technology Initiatives for the Alabama Department of Education. If ACCESS Distance Learning is funded as requested for the next two years, by 2010, ACCESS Distance Learning will be able to provide a 21st century distance learning classroom for every Alabama high school and serve 45,000 students statewide.

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