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Bucknell Elementary School students from grades 3 through 6 listen to principal Tim Slayter (center) explain how and why their school is receiving more than 120 new laptop computers.

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Mount Vernon: Bucknell Receives New Laptops

With school textbooks in Virginia being shifted to digital form, “it means everyone should get a computer,” said Del. Scott Surovell (D-44). Yet at schools like Bucknell Elementary School in the Mount Vernon area of Alexandria, a Title I school with a 73 percent free and reduced lunch population, many students don’t have computers or internet service at home to access those required resources.

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