School district receives grant

MUSCLE SHOALS - The city school district is the recipient of a Career and Technical Education 21st Century Classroom Grant.

The grant will be used to fund a distance learning laboratory at the Muscle Shoals Center for Technology. It will include two big screen monitors, Web cameras, 25 laptop computers and a monitoring system.

According to the center’s director, Gary Dan Williams, the lab can be used to link with other career and technical programs, to offer adult career and technical courses through distance education, to offer credit recovery for high school students, offer dual enrollment courses for students as well as adults through post-secondary schools and allow business and industry to utilize the lab for training programs.