The Classroom for the Future state program provided districts with hundreds of thousands of extra state funding to buy laptop computers for each core curriculum high school class (English, Science, History, Math) and paid for teacher training to optimize the computers use. The program was funded from 2006-2009. Franklin Area School District was denied funding for 2006-07 by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The Administration did not apply for funding in the subsequent two years funding was available. Of the 501 public school districts in Pennsylvania, 447 of them received Classrooms for the Future state grant awards.