Magoffin schools receive big grant for technology – Salyersville Independent
Magoffin schools receive big grant for technology – Salyersville Independent
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Publish Date: 2026-05-18 11:45:00
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SALYERSVILLE – A big announcement about grant funding for Magoffin County Schools was made last Friday, May 8.
At an event held at the Magoffin County High School, the USDA announced that Magoffin County Schools has been awarded $836,348 RSDLT grant to connect Magoffin County students to people all over the world, a grant awarded to only eight school districts in the state.
Kentucky State Director for the USDA Rural Development Travis Burton said, “Today’s announcement reflects a priority of the Trump administration and of Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and that is by strengthening rural America by strengthening essential services like education. I don’t think there’s any doubt how valuable distance learning can be in the classroom. We learned a lot a few years back during COVID, some good, some bad, but one of the good things that came from that time period was how we can better utilize technology to strengthen our education system and better education for our students. Today, as you’re well aware, we’re celebrating a grant and this grant is designed to help close the digital divide and ensure the quality of a Magoffin County student’s education is not determined by anything other than the willingness of the team, the leadership of the teachers to roll up their sleeves and work hard and make things happen for their students.”
The grant funding will pay for interactive technology that will put Magoffin County students face-to-face and voice-to-voice with essentially anyone. A computer and 75” interactive screen will be placed in every classroom.
Minerva Arnett, over Federal Programs for Magoffin County Schools, said, “Each of the screens that will be installed in our classrooms are interactive panels, where students can interact with the person at the other end of the screen, so it’s two-way communication. Before it was only one-way communication, where we could only see the person on the other side, but we could not interact…
