Toyota donates $200,000 for virtual students in Madison County's 3 school districts

Toyota donates $200,000 for virtual students in Madison County's 3 school districts

Today, the toyota u-s-a foundation donated 200- hundred thousand dollars to the 3 schools districts in madison county to help provide laptops and internet access to students.

Waay-31s alexis scott learned this grant came at a perfect time for students in north alabama.

The communications director for madison county schools told me all students in their distict have a laptop or computer.

But not all students have internet access.

Now, this grant will provide personal hotspot devices called mi-fi's to make sure all students can work online.

Right now, 30-percent of madison county students are enrolled in virtual learning and so far so good.

But tim hall, the district's director of communications told me there's been a few small bumps in the road.

In july, governor ivey announced the alabama broadband connectivity for students... a program where parents could recieve a device to connect to the internet.

Many got them, but were having problems and now that's all going to change thanks to the grant from toyota.

Tim hall, madison county school system "this, in the words of our superintendent, is the final game changer.

This is going to close that loop... the money from toyota usa, this is going to make the difference and we will get mifi's in the hands of every single student who needs one so they have connectivity that remote learning students need that can learn from home and have what they need to get the job done," hall said so far, everyone including teachers are doing well with the virtual learning system.

Reporting in hsv, alexis scott waay-31 news.

Toyota says the grant is part of a national effort to help more than 350 thousand students gain access to virtual learning