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Moorestown School District Continues Technological Upgrades

Over 2,000 laptops will be issued to students, and the district has upgraded its website and Facebook page.

Moorestown, NJ -- The Moorestown School District is using technology to better communicate with parents, and to enhance students’ learning.

The district distributed a total of 1,946 Dell laptops to the students in grades 7-12 as part of its five-year technology plan, the district said this week.

The one-to-one program expanded this year to include students in grades 6, 10, 11 and 12, with sixth graders scheduled to receive their laptops in November. That will bring the total to 2,241 laptops distributed to students this year.

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Additionally, the district launched a fully redesigned Moorestown Township Public Schools website and the Moorestown Township Public Schools Facebook page.

“We will continue to make improvements to the website and make it more informative and useful to the community, as well as easier to navigate,” the district said in a statement. “Please visit the new www.mtps.com website and explore the improved individual school-based and district-wide pages, as well as our newly launched Moorestown Township Public School Facebook page. This Facebook page will help us convey and share information to parents and community members on school-based and district-wide events, as well as any emergency notifications.”

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The next Board of Education meeting is scheduled for Nov. 15, 7 p.m. in the William Allen Middle School Media Center.

Anyone with questions in the interim can email MTPS_BOE@mtps.com.

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