The Geary USD 475 Board of Education has approved the purchase of 2,000 new laptop computers to serve students at Junction City High School. It is part of the district’s one-to-one initiative.

The computers will be available for students beginning with the 2016-17 school year. The cost is $1.79 million.

The Director of Business Operations for the district, Bill Clark, said some of the money for the project had been earmarked in a specific account. “We’re also going to move some money from the capital outlay account to cover that cost. ”

Additional money was located in a fund created in 2008 when USD 475 was creating facilities for the early childhood program. That amount totaled about $707,000.

The plan is to acquire the computers this school year so teachers can learn how to use them, and then distribute them to students next school year.