Fourteen Missouri school districts, including St. Louis Public, Ferguson-Florissant and Wellston schools, will get more than $4 million total in stimulus grants for technology in the classroom and technology-based teaching.

Gov. Jay Nixon announced the grants today at St. Louis Public’s Carnahan High School of the Future, 4041 S. Broadway. The schools applied through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The grants are funded through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Most of the districts will use the money to add new computers and technology to their classrooms, or to train teachers in technology-based instruction.

Nixon previewed a computer laboratory for multimedia learning, and a “smart” whiteboard system to assist teachers.

The list of schools is:

· Arcadia Valley $200,000

· Blue Springs $184,346

· Cameron $398,307

· Cassville $399,392

· Columbia $199,989

· Eldon $192,192

· Ferguson-Florissant $184,346

· Lebanon $307,190

· Nixa $196,465

· North Kansas City $396,956

· Sedalia $399,876

· Sikeston $399,488

· St. Louis Public Schools  $393,734

· Wellston $184,000

Total $4,100,090