LBMS Thanks Assemblyman for Tech Grant

Story and Photos by Rosemary Leonetti.

State Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg secured $100,000 of funding from New York State for the Long Beach School District to install 21st Century Learning Network equipment. The funds were used to help fund a major technology project that will ensure that Long Beach Public Schools will be able to provide a highly robust network infrastructure to support the instructional and administrative network computing environments, according to Long Beach School District.

On Jan. 31, district administrators, school board members and middle school students invited Weisenberg to visit the new middle school library media center, which has been equipped, through this grant, with the latest network technology. Sally Neumann, the district’s director of technology presented an interactive video to explain how this equipment will be used to support student learning in the future.

“The ability to access, interpret and manipulate information is critical to providing students with a digitally rich 21st century learning environment,” Neumann said.

Weisenberg told the students that learning to live together and having dignity and respect for one another is what Long Beach is all about. “I am proud of who we are and proud of the resources that we have equipped our schools with to help you become the leaders of tomorrow,” he said. “I am also proud that I was able to help supply the funding that brought such advanced technology into this room.”

Said Superintendent of Schools David Weiss: “This technology will allow you to go online to research, communicate and become informed citizens.”

“We are forever grateful to Assemblyman Weisenberg for his dedication and commitment to the Long Beach community, to our children and to education,” said Long Beach School Board Vice President Darlene Tangney.